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Member since: September 2010 User Number: 13949
Robots Built: 5 Components: 1
Blogs: 21 Location: San Diego, CA, United StatesMy start in electronics was a Radio Shack 100-in-1 kit. That was the first seven-segment LED I burned up as well. I remember my first robot was a kit that changed direction when you clapped. Years later the OMNI magazine's "Photovore" got my robotic interest rekindled. It's too bad that was long before the internet and Digikey. Not too long ago I googled the Photovore and I got interested in BEAM. That subsequently evolved into my current PICAXE passion.
I had a website, Jax Box, that had more detailed information about the projects you see here but it was sidelined by my next project, my online store JAKTEK. It currently has Start Here Robot kits, HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensors with mounting hardware, and Sharp IR sensor cables but more items will be added that cater to the amateur hobby roboticist. Hopefully there will be AVRcams in 2012!
The only robot I considered finished:
Current projects near completion:
- Pint-sized Start Here Robot
- A BEAM style phototropic obstacle-avoiding bristlebot
- An LMR Logo bot clone
- Babblebot USB Experiment Board
Projects that are well on their way:
- A mini Roomba clone
- A patio sweeping solar BEAM bot
- QLF Totem Pole
- PICAXE Mini Robot Builder Board
- PICAXE 28-Project Board Expansion Shield
Projects I spend time and money on but are still in their infancies:
- A solar charging "tagalong" smart thermocooler
- Solar powered swarmbots
- A modernized Dynamo suit for halloween and nightime good times in general
Things I've tried that have failed or are stuck in their tracks somehow (expense, technique, components, knowledge, etc):
- Biomimetic solar plant
- Strings of warm white LED mini paper lanterns powered by QLF circuits
- GPS-guided UAV 4-channel traditional helicopter
Proto-projects that are more ideas than works-in-progress:
- An entrant to a Mech Warfare event
- Some sort of CnC machine or 3D printer
- A patrol robot to frighten mammals out of my garden
- A talking smarthouse
- An anthropomorphic robot that uses both speech synthesis and speech recognition
- A robot that will open and pour a beer, perhaps with a Rube Goldberg touch