Let's Make Robots!
Hi LMR people, This is the beginning of my 2nd drum robot. I've build my tamiya tracked base for him. This version of frits's famous YDM will be using solenoids … Read more

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme

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Imagine that Fritsl combines his yellow drum machine with his quadcopter.. would be amazing to see. Frits, eat your heart out!!

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Last weekend we had a nice weather, and I made a Light in the garden, and decided to make a photo of it with my robot next to … Read more

Quadcopter Flight Assembled Architecture

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Just a cool vid I found..

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Where to buy cheap solenoids?

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Does anyone here where to buy cheap little solenoids? about $5,- or something like that. should work arround 3-5 volt.

I'm thinking of building another drum robot.. and with solenoids i can make more faster drum patterns. anyone knows a shop that delivers to Europe? I already looked on Ebay but couldn't find anything cheap.

 

Hamster Powered Walker

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Remember Gareth's "schneebeast" or Linefeed's "Karpedbeest"? well.. see this:

 

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Walks around using 3 micro-servo's
Using a
Hi LMR people! I'm building a little hexapod, just for fun. It uses 3 tiny 3g servo's (from ebay). all the legs are constructed using the inside of terminal blocks. … Read more

LM3914 Led mouth.

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Hello everyone,

Here's a video of my led mouth I made for my "blue Freak Machine".

This is the circuit I made for it:

 

In my case the leds are numbered as follow:

8 6 4 2 0 0 2 4 6 8

9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9

 

Edit: Oops i mixed up the 3914 and the 3915.. they both will work anyways..

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cheap digital compass, does anyone have experience with it?

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Hi LMR people,

Looking for a digital compass for my robot, I found this interesting Dual-axis Magnetic Sensor Module with UART& I 2 c Interface for $16.

link: http://www.sureelectronics.net/goods.php?id=958 and http://www.sure-electronics.net/download/DC-SS504_Ver1.0_EN.pdf

I've tried some photoshop to my primary image, as an experiment. Just made a picture of the progress..  I had the strange feeling being watched.. weird..   From … Read more