Steam walker

The gold medal winner of kinetic artbots - RoboGames 2006 by I-Wei Huang.

NXT Cicala

I was looking for an easy way to build custom chassis for various robotic projects. So, I purchased recently the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit. I think that the NXT is an easy way for experiments or prototyping.

I started with the quick project suggested by LEGO in order to learn the shapes and combinations of the various pieces.
After a few days I decided to make my first NXT robot; the NXT Cicala (a two wheeled balancing robot).

I used the light sensor in order to measure the slope of the robot as in the original Cicala version. I wrote a little program in NXC (a simple PID controller - manually adjusted for my sensor and motors) and voila.

front view

rear view

Isobot

Cool robotic designs: Isobots

Robotic platforms

Two platforms for robotic experiments:

- Qwerk - $349.00
- iRobot Create (from the creators of the Scooba) - $129.99

Double inverted pendulum

A double inverted pendulum video (posted by a lecturer of TECNUN).

Double inverted pendulum

Fuzzy logic controlled - two stage inverted pendulum.

Triple inverted pendulum

A triple inverted pendulum by Max Planck Institute!!

PID with BASIC Stamp

And a PID control intro with the BASIC Stamp.

LEGO inverted pendulum

An RCX inverted pendulum project by Ken Dye.

also: an analysis of motor speeds for geared motors by S & O Baker.

Rosie the robot

Ideas for unicycles by Ken Perlin.

Sodarace

"Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit."

Sodarace

Wodka info.

Computer history

Some online sources about computers’ history:

Old-computers
A .com site - features a collectors section.

Computer history museum
Missing some info but includes even robots.

Wikipedia pages about computers, home computers, and pesronal computers.
I found the ZX photo there.

Personal timeline:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC 464
Acorn A3000
The first home computer with a RISC and not the PowerPC based computers as Apple stated in some ads (~1990).

Favorite “computing” device:
The Antikythera mechanism (research project).

NXT Gyro

Still waiting for this gyroscopic sensor.

3D from 2D image - III

An alternative to Carnegie Mellon's research by Microsoft.

Sumo simulation

After the Soccer Simulation Microsoft releases Sumo Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio.

Soccer simulation

Microsoft releases Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio.

Murata boy

Make your own Murata boy! :P

PINO

Open PINO Platform:

"Open PINO Platform is the project to accelerate the research and development of humanoid robots by providing the technical information of PINO open to the public. Everyone can use PINO as a base of the research and development, in other words, to foster PINO to be more sophisticated humanoid robot. We hope PINO to play the similar role as LINUX, for humanoid robot development."

Donkey robot

Four legged robot for rough terrain by Boston Dynamics.

La Cicala

My first robot.
A two wheeled balancing robot based on the Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller.