Category Archives: Robot Projects

MAKE | Mindstorms Robotic Hand

From MAKE by John Baichtal Jan 4, 2013 The hand holds 4 NXT motors to control the fingers and thumb. The 4 fingers are controlled by the 2 outside motors, that are attached to the index finger and pinky. All … Continue reading

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Watch “WALL-E robot with Arduino” on YouTube

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Autonomous Christmas Lab

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You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm

from: PopSci By Gregory Mone Posted 12.06.2012 at 9:59 am You Build What?! A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm A 16-year-old’s homemade wireless robotic limb. Two summers ago, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using … Continue reading

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K-12 Website

Looking for STEM Education ideas, see http://k12lab.com/ This is a website to find and share STEM education ideas. It is sponsored by NI (the makers of LabVIEW and the NXT Software) so it has a lot of stuff on Robotics! … Continue reading

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RoboJoust

On April 26, the Tech support people at Sparkfun had a little robot competition of their own. I thought it was a neat contest and wanted to share the video with you. If you want to see more goto http://www.sparkfun.com/news/857?cid=Newsletter+-+EDN+Fun+Friday

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Lego Robot Link

Was just told about a website for Lego NXT Robots that I just had to share. Damien Kee has a wonderful site and also sells books/Curriculum for using NXT in the classroom. My favorite is a simple to build NXT … Continue reading

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Brainlink Gives Any Robot a New Brain

From IEEE Spectrum Brainlink is a little piece of hardware that can augment (or replace) the brain that’s currently powering your robot. Yes, your robot. Any robot at all, pretty much, as long as it’s controllable with an IR remote … Continue reading

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Let’s Make Robots

Looking for a wonderful place to see, learn and talk about robots? Try http://letsmakerobots.com/

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S.P.A.R.K.

Looking for educational resources about robotics? Try S.P.A.R.K. (Starter Programs for the Advancement of Robotics Knowledge) at http://spark.irobot.com/. This website, sponsored by iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, has educational resources, links and videos and much more. Check it out!

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