MorpHex is a robot over a year in the making by Kare Halvorsen and he is not yet done with it. Using 25 servos, an Xbee radio and various other parts, Kare has made an amazing robot.
One of our favorite parts is how the robot is turned on and off with a long “key”. Kare hopes to give the robot the ability to roll like a ball in the future.
Check out all the details on Kare’s blog.
Link via (CNET)
Check out this amazing DIY robot by Robert Beatty and his daughter called Mechatron.
Using mecanum wheels and an electric gun, this amazing robot can move sideways and fire pellets at the same time.
To accomplish all this the forty five pound robot has the following:
An Arduino Mega, Arduino Nano, 12 Maxbotix sonar sensors, 4 motors, Xbee radio, custom gun turret, Hitec Digital servos, MP3 Sound Board, many LEDs as well as other items.
Robert’s comment on his own blog state:
We set out to build the best, coolest robot we could. There is no doubt that it cost thousands of dollars for the various individual components and raw materials alone, but I didn’t keep track. People have asked me to sell Mechatron, build them one, or turn it into a kit, which would be a lot of fun, but I think it would be far too expensive for most people. For us it was a labor of love.
Awsome job Robert, we love this robot!
Update – 12/13 We had a video up, but replaced it with this photo as the video went down for some reason.
Link via (Arduino Forums)
Tags: arduino
For all you Mario Bros fans, Michael Overstreet and some makers from Kansas City have created the Turtle Shell Racer robots. The general idea is you take apart a cheap RC car for some of the robot’s parts and then print out the colorful shell on a Makerbot. This looks like a lot of fun. Wishing I had a Makerbot. I wonder if anyone has a Makerbot for hire?
Get all the Turtle Shell Makerbot files on Thiniverse and check out the full instructions in the Turtle Shell Racdr PDF File.
Click through to see the turtles in action.
Nice job guys!
Tags: MakerBot, Mario Bros, Thingiverse, turtle
PocketBot, a matchbox sized line following robot by Ondrej Stanek from Prague.
Well done, Ondrej! There is a lot more information on his website, including this PocketBot Poster (pdf).
Tags: Prague
The BilliBot Project is a project started by Garrat Gallagher from MIT that uses the iRobot platform and a Kinect sensor with ROS software. ROS is the Robot Operating System developed by Willow Garage.
What is BilliBot you ask?
Bilibot, from the German word ‘billig’, or cheap, is a sophisticated robotics platform at an affordable price. A Bilibot consists of:
* a powerful computer
* an iRobot create
* a Kinect sensor
* mounting hardware to put it all together
* the ROS Robotic Operating system, with research contributions from roboticists all over the world!
Pre order one now for only $1,200 and if you make a cool project with it and share it , you can have $350 refunded!
Click through for a video.
Link via (Robots.net)
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