Wonders around autonomously. Exhibits all 7 characteristics of life, therefore technically it is an organism.
This is the Bøsewicht. A ghost robot custom made together with my elder son.
This little monster ghost is what you find under your bed when you sleep. The only one that can handle this monster is the Monster Catcher*.
Ingredients
2 x 9g Micro Servo
1 x Arduino Uno R3
3 x LED warm white
1 x LED red
1 x Speaker
1 x Ultrasonic Sensor
1 x IR Compound Eye
The Making-Of
This is the LMR robot for the today's Campus-Party Berlin. Its purpose in life is to help children if they are afraid of monsters in the night. The Monster Catcher stays under the bed and makes noises to catch the monsters...
The Monster Catcher is a collective work of Drakuni, Antonio, Isotope, TinHead, Frits, RobotFreak, Lumi and Francisco.
The Making
Here some impressions from the making.
Frits, Nils and Antonio elaborate on the ideas. It is important that it is a very easy-to-make robot that does not need rocket science software and hardware.
Still lots to do, but I finally got this guy printed and assembled. He has 3DOF per leg using cheap 9g servos :( I'm using Inverse kinematics for his movement. I just started programming him and got the IK working for one leg. The ping((( is just stuck in the mega2560 for now. I'll be adding a tilt/pan head when I get more servos, and the wiring needs some cleaning up :p I just found out about LMR last week and so far it's awesome! Hopefully by the end of next weekend I'll have some walk sequence video to show off.
Hi there LMR, here is another one of our projects, as promised. :)
This is Xylomatron. It is a robot that you can play a game similar to "Simon Says" but with a xylophone interface. Basically, it does play a note and expect you to repeat it, if you succeed it adds another note to the previous sequence and expect you to do the same. Therefore the game gets harder at each level, depending on your memory.
When you fail, it gets quite angry thinking "The puny human couldn't memorize X notes" (it does really trace it in fact :D)
Alright ! After a haitus and some odd but trivial glitches I am finally happy to declare the birth of ANTROBOT Ver 1.0.0. Its a 2 legged creature with a single purpose - to explore and traverse its surroundings. Powered by a Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Battery it is a joy to see it scamper through the room. The way it frolics is delightful and reminds me of a swaying pendulum. It is by no stretch of imagination complete.
Fijibot is an autonomous, self-charging photovore. I built him using a 1.5 liter Fiji Water bottle, an Arduino Uno, 6v solar panel (plus various other parts) from Radio Shack, an Arduino Proto Shield (plus various other parts) from Adafruit, and the wheels and steering arrangement from an RC car.
The Starbot is a custom robot made for one of my sons. It is a star that shines and rotates to where the spectator is.
My son found this wooden star-on-a-stick somewhere and played around with it. After a while he came to me and said it would be cool if this star would shine whenever somebody comes close to it.
Bam! Here we go. This is a perfect question for a geek dad. Of course we can! So this little kid and I elaborated a bit more and out came this robot named Starbot.
Well, finally I've started to assemble my first go at building an autonomous bot, nothing fancy, nothing original just something to learn the ropes. I'm going for a 2WD design that to me seems to be quite ubiquitous.
As of the moment (May, 17th 2012) basically I've only glued together a couple of DVDs (following generalgeek's sugestion) to use as base, and then also hot-glued a couple of DC motors and a 3rd non-motor wheel to it.
Component-wise I'm only waiting for a couple of transistors to build an H-bridge (as sugested on a Dan M's post).
oooooo spooky image
this image was created by scanning a Sharpe ir distance sensor on tilt and pan servos controlled by an Arduino and rendered in Processing. the closer the object is the brighter the pixel is .the view is the same as my Egg bot assembly video, if you have had a look at that.
At this point you might be thinking , why is this posted as a robot?!