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This is Salt-E, a modified medium tank built from a www.rocketbrandstudios.com kit. The original Arduino Nano was not working correctly, so I ordered a 'Arduino … Read more
Detect Obstacles and navigate autonomously
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    I 'finally' have completed my obstacle avoiding disc-o-bot (inspired from the start here robo ;) will be uploading videos too soon..... :)     A new … Read more
Remote Control robot controlled with InfraRed Remote.
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*Note: Fritzing Schematic, and Arduino Sketch attached as Zip.*  This is a 2 motor robot controlled with an Infrared remote control. Arduino needs the IR Library … Read more
I made a crane from Merkur( something like Meccano). It has two motors, one with encoder. The position of the hook is sensed by the encoder and the position of the … Read more
Hi, This is second version of my robot Primo. It is Lighter, Faster, Smaller and nicer (I think :D ). It is controlled by Picaxe-08M. I used one IR sensor connected … Read more
    Pictures in High res. now available on: https://picasaweb.google.com/117478617231202648212/Primo?authkey=Gv1sRgCLy4gIfUuZSIrwE The Code is on English now … Read more
Balance on two Wheels
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This is the first prototype of the Balancing Robot. In this version , I used two sharp sensors to control the motors.this is as first step till the IMU comes from … Read more
Hey folks! This is my first robot of this kind. Orginally I wanted to use a different controllerboard with everything built onto it already, but programming it so … Read more
Drives around bumping into objects making the room smell great
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I just finished my very first robot today. Not having a Ping ultrasonic sensor I searched my parts box for ideas on how to avoid objects. After having realized that … Read more
this is my last lo-tech beambot.i built is for artcraft fun. the bare bones photo vore is a very classic beam design by wilf.the sch on most website was wrong.the … Read more
To start, I'd like to say this is my first robot, but, since I had electronic- experience, and so many people have done the SHR, and I had a good idea, B.I.L. was … Read more
AVOIDS OBSTACLES
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I would like to thank Frits Lyneborg for the idea and inspiration, so here it is!   Read more
roams around on rough terrain and avoids objects or overcomes them
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tǎnkè is the Chinese word for tank. Ordered this 1/16 scale model of the German tank Tiger with metal gear motors and metal tracks at taobao and started to build … Read more
this robotic turtle is my second wheel bot. i diy a arduino board with rs232 bootloader.i am going to make a L298N motor driver board. the overall debugging will … Read more
Shall drive at least 500m outdoors
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This is actually an experiment. It shall proof that even a very simple designed rover with a simple micro controller, program and sensors is able to drive at least … Read more
You know how it is sometimes, you start something and everything along the way goes wrong. This project started as something to get me into object recognition, but … Read more
It wanders around, avoid obstables and dosent' fell from edges
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Hi all, Here is my first robot using a micro-controller ! I started with the Start Here guide and it evolves a bit. I rewrote the code, it might not be as good as … Read more
Go backward and change direction when hitting an obstacle
Hi all, An other robot built a few months. This one detects collisions, go backward and change direction. Once again, no micro-controller inside... but it's the … Read more
Skydiver can move on the ground or be lifted on a weather balloon. During its whole mission the robot measures the background  resp. cosmic radiation and capture … Read more
Navigate around while avoiding obstacles with ultrasound, infrared light and air pressure based bumper sensors.
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Follows a line and avoid obstacles, Make sound with a piezo speaker
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This is my entry for the DAGU "Beginners Robot Chassis Challenge". It is prelimary named Pacman, but the name maybe change in the future. Pacman was my first idea, … Read more
Hi, BlueFarAway is my first attempt of building a robot. It´s like a playground where I can experiment. I got an Arduino for another purpose and wondered how far … Read more
optimsing the 08 by sheer brute force
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Update - took a few photos to magically transform this blog from a mere "schematic" to a fully fledged, utterly incomplete "robot".  Like a few others here, I'm … Read more
Launching model rockets and track back the landing site of the rocket
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Hi everybody, Just working on the second version of my model rocket launching robot. The first version was remote controlled (see video), the second version is … Read more
Autonomous robot that roams the world looking for places to jam...
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First and foremost I would like to thank Fritzl for coming up with this masterpiece in the first place. If it wasn't for him I would have not gotten into robotics … Read more
Avoids obstacle follows line and detects traffic lights
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The features of this robot are obstacle avoidance line following and detection of the traffic lights.It follows the white path on a black surface and detect the … Read more
goes around the room trying to not bump into walls
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This is my "start here" robot. It is not very solid yet... i'm working on that, and also on the code... trying something similar to the navigation from part 2 but … Read more