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Build Your Own Paper Robots

Published on July 27, 2009 in books, papercraft and robots. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

As soon I saw this I knew I had to get it :)

The book comes with a CD-ROM containing PSDs and PDFs of 12 different robots, and 2 scenes. You can edit the PSDs to create your own colour schemes, and obviously print to larger paper should you want to create some larger robots.

Behold my army of robots!

I can see potential for making some of these and adding some amusing electronics to them. Will I ever have time to actually do this? Who knows. I’d certainly like to, but what with setting up my own company, I haven’t got much spare time at the moment.

I bought mine from Amazon.

If you don’t want to spend money, then wander over to Paperkraft. There’s a ton of great papercraft models to be built, including a number of robots.

(Via BoingBoing).

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Arduino + Flash + Wii Nunchuck + Servos + Webcam. Part 1

Published on March 29, 2009 in Servos, Wii, arduino, electronics, flash, hacking, nunchuck, robots and webcam. 12 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Here’s part of what I’ve been working on over the last few days.

The Wii Nunchuck is connected to my Arduino using I2C.

For now, the webcam is just a standard webcam with the housing removed, and connected via USB.

It uses  hacked up code from here and here.

(If you want to make something like this, Making Things Talk is an outstanding book.)

Here’s a sample video:

[update]: Hello Hack a Day people! :)

[update]: As Dokument says, here’s an almost identical setup created long before I did this.

[update]: If you don’t want to cut the end off your Wii Nunchuck, you can buy one of these.

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Amazing Robotics and Hexapods

Published on March 29, 2009 in electronics, helicopter, hexapod and robots. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

Gizmodo has an interesting post showing some of the robotics built by Shigeo Hirose.  

snake robot

Check out the video on the post, there’s some pretty amazing stuff there, even if several of the robots are several years old.

 

I’m also currently obsessing over Hexapods.  Six-legged insectile robots, take a look:

I quite like the idea of this RC Helicopter / Hexapod hybrid:

You can buy kits from Lynxmotion but they’re not cheap. I already have some of the parts needed, so perhaps I’ll buy bits over time..

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