fritsl's blog

 

Hi everyone,

It is about a year ago I made a robot called "Skiwalker".

It's parts are used for other robots, and I would have forgotten all about it, if not every now and then when I logged in, someone wrote to me; "Hey, that is a nice walkthrough, cool, helped me, inspired me" etc..

That is so NICE! It often makes my day, to get that kind of feedback without warning for a long forgotten thing I did.

And all I did at the time was to remember to film / take pictures.

US based Audiofile Engineering, a company that specializes in professional audio software for Mac OS X, has asked me to make "Yellow Drum Machine II" exclusively for them.

Once finished, the robot will be first prize in a promotional contest they hold later this spring / summer :)

So I guess I'll have to order some funky parts to play with now :D

/ Fritsl

I think I have a lot of experience to pass on to first/second time robot builders, so instead of making a new "drumming robot"-kind of project, I am working on a new tutorial, "Part II of How to build your first robot" :)

Stay tuned, those with interest!

/ Fritsl

(Update: Some time after writing the below, I made this, that may interest people doing navigation with Picaxe)

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How to make a robot do complicated tasks & "act alive".. With ease..

Here is one guys humble input - I am sure you all have your own ways of programming. Just take it for what it is; My personal thoughts, use what you can :)

 

.. And now I´d wish I could write something exciting and groundbreaking :D

The last couple of days I, and my creation "Yellow Drum Machine" has had our 15 minutes of fame;

One week ago, a google-search on "Yellow Drum Machine" returned nothing, nil, zero!

Amazed over the popularity the Yellow Drum Machine has recieved, but with my mother-in-law on visit, and a baby on my other arm, it is hard to do a follow up quickly :)

So this is a first-and only shoot, showing the sing-along-possibilities of YDM. I *could* have sung something more inspiring, and I could have taken another shot, to wait for a more inspiring rythm etc - but this is what I can manage right now (my baby girl is sleeping on my shoulder, even writing this is hard :)

Ahaaa.. My robot is now also copied in some asian language!

http://www.robotsky.com/XiangM/2008-03-08/12049470082888.html

Make your own robots & walkthroughs out there, guys!! 

(Still quite flattering tough, lol) 

This is funny!

A couple of days ago I posted a robot on instructables.com - It was a great success, went number one on their charts etc - good fun.

 

Today i wanted to check in to see how it was doing. I did not have the link for my posting, so I searched for "Robot".

To my surprise and laugh, ANOTHER robot that I have made showed up as a resoult!

I just want to be able to reverse a current. How hard can it be?

I just want to be able to decide direction of the motor to my pic, why does it have to be so complicated?

Well - perhjaps it doesnt! Jip / Jimmy, the most clever guy in here just drew me this and send it to me.

The smallest and most-likely-to-burn-something H-bridge in the world!

If it works, I will make a full walkthrough about it.

If it burns my robot.. well.. he did warn me ;)