Tag: robot

Tutorials

CanDo Line Following Robot

2012-06-10 Kali

Why?

CanDo is a gentle introduction to robotics for anyone who’s just starting out with electronics or programming. It assembles in about 20 minutes and requires no soldering or wire stripping. Kits are $100.

Get a CanDo today!

Step by Step

Some arduino starter kits will teach you to turn on a light or move a motor and then expect you to figure out the rest by yourself. CanDo gives a bit more direction and a greater feeling of accomplishment, because when you will build your own robot. For those who still want to go even further, we offer this challenge: Can you improve on the CanDo to solve a maze?

Details

Each CanDo comes with all the parts you need to build your robot. Just add a 9v battery and you’re ready to go!

Read the assembly instructions and things to try on the Wiki

Tutorials

How I built a Line Following Arduino Robot

2011-10-22 Dan

Sitting at a teacher conference one day, my booth partner asked me how long it would take me to build a line following arduino robot. I looked around at the parts we had on hand: an arduino UNO, a pile of 10k resistors and photovoltaic resistors, continuous servos, coffee cups, wire, tape, and a nine volt battery.

I said “an hour.”

He said “Prove it.”

Miscellaneous

Quadcopter robot bloopers

2011-07-02 Dan

Building and fine-tuning robots is tricky work. For every video you see of something awesome there are several more never revealed of the near misses, bloopers, outtakes, and fails.

Have you got any video of robot outtakes? Share it in the comments.

Miscellaneous

Modular robot clusters

2011-03-29 Dan


Building robots can be a lot of work. One way to reduce the work is to use the same part many times.
These researchers present a snake robot made from identical modular components arranged in a daisy chain.

One could argue these are modular robots working together.

Self-assembling would be nice.