On RoboCommunity, Grandlarseny37 has done a preliminary take-apart on the new WowWee Alive Cub robo-critter.
Inside the WowWee Alive Cubs: Part 1 [Thanks, Robert!]
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
This “pencil pusher” autonomous sumo robot uses pencil erasers as bumpers when it hits obstacles. We think it might be more effective in “robot wars” if the pencils were sharpened and their orientation was reversed on this bot.
Sensors of No.2 Champion Autonomous Mini-Sumo Robot
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
This tabletop storyteller created by Kyoto University’s Robo-Garage recites The Tale of Genji with accentuating gestures and a retractable fan for dramatic emphasis. This would have been quite an upgrade from what the story-bot I had as a kid. - Murasaki-bot
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
Micah Carrick has posted some really excellent docs detailing his creation of a line-following robot, now in its 5th generation. The robot project is part of a series of tutorials he’s done on his site about working with AVR microcontrollers.
FailureBot 5 - A Line Following Robot [Via ladyada’s ranting]
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
Botmag, the website for Robot magazine, has a nice piece by Eric Ostendorff on modifications to the Parallax Scribbler robot to control it via a TV remote (which requires some coding, no hardware mods) and to create a charging station for it (which requires both software and hardware work).
What’s Up? DOCK! Take Charge of your Scribbler Robot’s IR Capabilities
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
Steve sent in his latest project, the RoboStool. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip, and motor mount kit, to navigate in 3 different ways. It can use a “beacon” mode to navigate or be controlled via a universal remote. It can even be put in “follow” mode, which uses thermal sensing to follow the user around the house. [Thanks Steve!]
In a continuing effort to create unique and unusual robots I just completed RoboStool - a robotic foot stool. Where would such an idea as a robot foot stool come from? I’m not really sure but one day while waiting for my wife to finish shopping in a Bed Bath and Beyond (and totally bored of course) I spied the ultimate in tacky furniture - a cubed shaped foot stool covered in the finest of brown vinyl. At that moment it occurred to me that this foot stool was just begging to be automated. And thus began the RoboStool project.
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
Pink Tentacle points us to this amazing looking sea bream robot.
Tai-robot-kun’s creator, professor Ikuo Yamamoto, says the robot can easily be mass-produced, outfitted with various cameras and sensors, and released into the sea to perform a wide range of oceanographic survey tasks. He adds that because the robot swims silently and looks like a real fish, it would be able to gather data without alarming the creatures it encounters.
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Robofish will go where we can’t
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Original post by Patti Schiendelman
Awesome progress shots of Justin Gray’s (Graywrx Sculptural Welding, Oakland, CA) latest project: a jet turbine-powered tracked robot. You can see pictures and videos of some of his other flame-throwing robots on his blog.
Unnamed but almost finished 7/5/08 [Flickr set]
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
I love the creativity found in this “next-gen” remote-controlled vibrobot. It has a PICAXE brain, uses a 16-pin DIP socket as its vibro-feet, and a universal TV remote as its controller.
SOCBOT - the next generation vibrobot
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
The Delft University of Technology has shrunk their robotic ornithopter design down to a very impressive 10cm - that’s almost 1/3 the size of their previous design.
Specs for the Delfly Micro -
Size: 10 cm, from wingtip to wingtip
Weight: 3.07 gram;
Battery: 1 gram
Camera and transmitter: 0.4 gram;
Engine: 0.45 gram;
Receiver: 0.2 gram;
Actuators: 0.5 gram;
Rest: about 0.52 grams.
Battery: 30 mah lithium polymer, for three minutes fight.
Flap frequency wings: 30 Hz
Materials: Mylar foil (wings), carbon and balsawood.
Range: 50m
Hit the site for more media + info - Delfly Micro
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
The “Rug-Bug BEAM Photovore” by Ken Hill is an environmentally aware photovore robotic bug that rolls, creates chirping sounds in response to light levels, and can be charged with solar cells. The bot runs from a pair of 74ACT139 ICs to control two Hankscraft gear motors from pulsed signals and a dual 556 timer IC. The design is based off of Craig Maynard’s Cybug 555.
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
This robot was built using the PICAXE controller and has a homebrew line sensor that uses light dependent resistors (LDRs) to find its way. The custom PICAXE board included an L293 driver chip and ran from battery power. Check out the link for details on the board and integration into the LEGO Mindstorms setup.
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Crabfu. Is there no stopping this guy? He seems to be cranking out a bot or other cool creation on a near-weekly basis. Here’s his latest, a remote-controlled golfing “bot.”
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Original post by Gareth Branwyn
I featured Jerome Demer’s ingenious little one-motor walker in my book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. I’ve been hoping he’d put up an Instructable and he finally has. This is a bit of a finicky mechanical build, but worth the effort. It uses a standard BEAM bicore circuit as its brain (via the 74HCT240 chip).
How to build the one motor walker!
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Lastest fishy project from Crab Fu.
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