Month: July 2010
Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots — like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR — all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab’s incredible technical success. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best…
Battle Bot
A clip from my camera phone, sorry for the low quality. This was taken at the Maker Faire on Sunday May 4, 2008. Duration : 0:0:16
What kind of stuff can you do with the nxt kit (robot)?
So I am hoping to get one for my birthday, but I am not that sure what cool things you can do with them?Are they hard to program? If you can give me a link to a tutorial on how to program and think of stuff to build, that would be great too, thanks for…
About how much money does it cost to build a battlebot/combatrobot?
I want to build one and don’t know how much money it costs. If you guys could tell me about how much it costed to build yours, if you did, and post a pic if possible. If you are talking about the ones shown on TV competitions, depending on how good/lucky you are at scrounging…
Two-Clawed Lego Rubik’s Cube Solver
This machine solves Rubik’s Cube by using either claw to rotate a face or flip the entire cube. It is built with Lego Mindstorm, some rubber bands, and cotton strings. It has 3 servo motors, controlled by Lego NXT via Bluetooth. This was a group project of NTU’s Automatic Control Lab in Spring 2010. The…