Archive for the ‘R0bots’ Category

I Have The Best Moustache

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Ihavethebest.com functions to both entertain, and also become a creative tool in broadcasting talent, originality, and ultimately what is to be considered the best by exposing the great variety of interesting people, talent, and prized possessions that make up the world. Do you have what it takes to be the ...

PICAXE - Inexpensive Embedded Controller

Monday, October 24th, 2005

PICAXE I've been looking for a low cost robotics kit for my son, and this might very well be it. Their online store appears to be getting hammered now, but the pdf price list indicates 18.61 pounds for the 28A Starter Pack and 35 pounds ($65) for a nice compact ...

BeerBot

Monday, July 18th, 2005

BeerBot I know John & Chris through FIRST Robotics. They made a pretty cool robot .. now to go buy some VEX kits & make my own. Hooray for laziness, beer, and robots. This robot was specifically requested by RadioShack for a media event. The challenge given was: "design a ...

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/ This has quite a few broken links and such, but there is some cool stuff on here. I first had the vision to build a robot while working as an engineer on the old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s. There were no real robots at the time of course, so it was ...

Robo Urinal: Behold Your Porcelain Master : Gizmodo

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

Robo Urinal: Behold Your Porcelain Master : Gizmodo Yikes. Shakeutron will never judge you. Shakeutron is here to help. Shakeutron would like to buy you a nice steak dinner. Shakeutron did not mean to offend you. Shakeutron would like you to come back. Shakeutron cries 1.5 gallons of tears. (Thanks, baud boy!)

Wired 13.04: La Vida Robot

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Wired 13.04: La Vida Robot A well written article that explroes the human side of the undocumented Mexican immigrants who beat an MIT team in an underwater robotics competition. Even though Lorenzo had never heard of MIT, the team from Cambridge scared him, too. There were 12 of them - six ocean-engineering ...

R. Robot is Making Sense

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

R. Robot is Making Sense Is this the first robot blogger? The quote below was written by a perl script. Looks like he's blogging pretty fast. In some cases a post every 1-5 minutes. "So how's that economy doing, anyway?" said Joseph Wilson on Hardball, refusing to disclose his ...

“I, Robot” in a nutshell

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

"I, Robot" in a nutshell. Having read this, I'm now quite satisfied that I never wasted my time on this movie. I saw the movie "I, Robot" recently, a film based loosely on a book written by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. In case you're not familiar with Asimov's writing, here's a ...

Wired News: More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Wired News: More Robot Grunts Ready for Duty I'm guessing these won't be legal in Battlebots! Hunting for guerillas, handling roadside bombs, crawling across the caves and crumbling towns of Afghanistan and Iraq -- all of that was just a start. Now, the Army is prepping its squad of robotic vehicles for ...

Robosaurus the world’s largest entertainment robot

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

Robosaurus the world's largest entertainment robot This should make the commute to work interesting. # An electrohydromechanical creature of prehistoric proportions # Stands 40 feet tall (twice as tall as Tyrannosaurus Rex) # Weighs 60,000 pounds (over 3 times heavier than Tyrannosaurus Rex) # Lifts 4,000 pound cars up higher than a 5 story building # ...