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My Rover 5 was out of order because of a broken voltage regulator so I thought why not start a new project. I have boxes full of parts that I bought when I started … Read more
Draw numbers of the winners of the LMR Donation
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Introdution: This is my competitor for the LMRv4 Donor Appreciation Robot challenge. Using 5 Dynamixel AX-12+ Servos and an Arduino Mega. Programming has been done … Read more
Work in progress. HexedBot can walk forward and backward. Still working on the driver program. Hopefully I'll get the video processing working so that he can follow … Read more
Interacts with human beings
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***Update 05/05/2012*** Elektro's brain under construction. The main power supply is in the moment a 7.2 V/4600 mAh NiMh battery. I have soldered Li-Po-battery … Read more
I started playing with Arduino a couple of months ago. I stumbled on this site looking for some information and thought it would be a cool idea to built something … Read more
OpenCV, HSV thresholding for object detection, bot moves towards target, adjusts position when it gets close enough
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Overview: This is ASAR a robot built with an intention of using a raspberry pi as its brain.  Unfortunately the raspberry pi is not available until the end of May … Read more
For christmas I got a couple of robot parts. This robot consists of two continuous rotation servos, a small caster, an arduino uno and a 7.2 nimh battery. I … Read more
Primarily a Development Platform
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Videos posted of sandy in operation. (3-1-2012)   This is my first attempt at robotics and the first time here at LMR so apologies if all this is obvious to … Read more
navigates a maze with feelers that reverses the opposing motor
Hi all Thanks for letting me join your site Here is a bot that I designed for the scouts to build it was designed as a maze runner. This one was built by my … Read more
Roming around using an SRF-04 for obsticle aviodance
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This was built about 7 years ago, the idea for the chassis came from the BOE-BOT, the controller is an Out of production Stampbug 2 board, from Milford Instruments … Read more
Simple Arduino Obstacle Avoidance
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Hi guys, This is my first robot and I am having some difficulty moving forward with the project. I hope you can help The project is a simple Arduino obstacle … Read more
I telecommute between Austin and Dallas and have wanted a telepresence robot for a couple of years. I finally got the courage to build one (not being much of a … Read more
This is my first robot that I made with an Arduino. It's made of two pieces of plexiglas. The upper piece stands on 3 threaded rods. The motors are attached with … Read more
Navigate Around via Infrared
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This is my first Robot and it gve me a great start. Thanks fritsl for giving such a start. Its quite Easy, but living in India, I  faced some Problems. The first … Read more
walk around and avoid obsticles with 8 servos and a sharp IR (impress friends!)
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this is the very begining of my quadruped it uses a picaxe 28x1 and will sponser up to two servos per leg (2dof) so far the black box is just the "control station" … Read more
Pick small things up and put them down
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I had this idea after I studied a tulip on my roof garden. In the morning the blossom opened, in the evening the blossom closed. If I forgot to water it, it let its … Read more
Listen to spoken commands or EMG and move accordingly
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Construction of the arm The arm is made from 2mm ABS sheet. This material is very easy to cut with a carpet knife, can be very well glued with superglue and be … Read more
Explores via Ultrasound, plays "Zelda's Lullaby" when stuck
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    This is my first robot.  I started fiddling with microchips as a break from high level programming.  I like feeling more in touch with the low level … Read more
For my second project, i decided to upgrade a bit on my first robot. The only extra part is a line follower kit (AXE 121) which i had already acquired from Tech … Read more
Here is my second robot based on Picaxe 28X1 board (Start Here format), designed on a chassis that was actually an air duct from the cooling system of an old … Read more
Hi guys, This is a modified PICO. This is one of my product prototypes. You will find in our online shop in few days. I use Arduino and 2 ir SHARP distance sensors … Read more
Same as a real roach - runs around and annoys people
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My first robot - "roachbot". Simple and stupid. Bumps into things, backs up, turns around. Cardboard body, Arduino brain, differential drive wheels, whisker … Read more
This project is my very first robot project. It has a cybot foot base with 2 DC-motors and 1 wheel in front. I use an Arduino processor as his "brain". For now my … Read more
“The Crawler” is my first indoor robot with a range sensor. In hindsight I can see that I probably should have gone with motors and wheels, but I wanted to … Read more
LineIronBot is my latest robot. I have hacked my dead iron and now it is functioning line follower robot! :D I was thinking of building a line follower for a few … Read more
  My first non-kit robot. Inspired a lot by the "Start here" robot on this site! Read more

Leo

Main Goal : To listen for a knock at the door and then notify the human occupant of the house.  Eventually will be an AUV, complete with charging … Read more
Simple and yet fun to make arduino bot. Just follows the strongest light source. Using two LDRs, a modified pico and 1xAA and 2xAA battery packs, to give out 4,5 … Read more