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Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of towers and strings – Meccano, or Lego – to have …read more Continue reading Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
We aren’t sure there’s enough information in the [We Make Machines’] video to easily copy their self-balancing bike project, but if you want to do something similar, you can learn …read more Continue reading A Self Balancing Bike for Crash Dummy Billy
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Ever wondered how it feels to have the Sorting Hat decide your fate? [Will Dana] wanted to find out, so he conjured a bit of Hogwarts magic, and crafted a …read more Continue reading From Felt to Fate: Building Your Own Sorting Hat
Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand. …read more Continue reading A Simple Robot For Learning About Robotics
Ever wondered if you could build a robot controlled by chemical reactions? [Marb] explores this wild concept in his video, merging chemistry and robotics in a way that feels straight …read more Continue reading Gray Matter on a Chip: Building an Artificial Brain with Luminol
If you think your job sucks, be grateful you’re not this homebrew sewer inspection robot. Before anyone gets upset, yes we know what [Stargate System] built here isn’t a robot …read more Continue reading DIY Pipe Inspector Goes Where No Bot Has Gone Before
Whether you’re a kid or a kid at heart, learning about science and engineering can be a lot more fun if it’s practical. You could sit around learning about motors and …read more Continue reading Learn About Robot Arms By Building Pedro 2.0
Besides Pokémon, there might have been no greater media franchise for a child of the 90s than the Transformers, mysterious robots fighting an intergalactic war but which can inexplicably change …read more Continue reading Open-Source Robot Transforms
Even in the advanced world of 2024, robots are still better in science fiction than in reality. Star Trek gave us the erudite and refined Data, Rogue One gave us the fierce yet funny …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Cuddly Companion Bots
Dealing with all the wiring can quickly become a challenge on robots, especially the walking variety which have actuators everywhere. [Eric Yufeng Wu] sidestepped the wiring issue by creating Q8bot, …read more Continue reading Little Quadruped Has PCB Spine And No Wiring