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I teach a Lego Mindstorms class at Art Center in Pasadena. This Nick's robot which has a contraption which rotates a marble on it.
The red block on the top is a little motor. It spins a black axle, which is suspended beneath it. The axle is connected to a white circular disc, which holds the marble. When the disc spins, the marble rotates about (although not very efficiently).
We started calling this a "milk shake machine," but then Willy Wonka came up, so now it's the "Everlasting Gobstopper Machine."
One of the other robot inventors in the class asked, "but what is the point?" to which I replied, "why does your robot have wings?"
He said, "but it's a bug?" to which I replied, "well this is a gobstopper machine."
Oh, people and their need for POINTS. Sigh...
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Ambassador Miller joined 30 enthusiastic students at the American Center for a U.S. Embassy and Robo Lab jointly hosted Robotics Fair to promote STEM education during Computer Science Education Week. Participants showcased their own creations, which included a spider robot, a human intrusion detection system, an Arduino weather station, and an automated street light system, and shared their innovative ideas with each other. Visit the American Center’s MakerSpace to participate in hands-on activities like this and learn how innovation and invention can be used to solve everyday problems.
McAfee wanted a full size robot to match their 10" action figure for their Security Conference. Girl not included. We also built the information desk, 1 of 10, she is standing on.
Originally, there were two different robot patterns in Creepy Cute Crochet, but, once it became apparent that this would be too much robot redundancy, they were forced to duke it out for the limited available space. This model lost out in that battle, but has come back stronger, fitter, and ready to rule us all.
Blog post with instructions to make your own available here:
Robot Star I 1952-1960
Introduced in 1952.
Star is similar to the Robot IIa, but with film rewind added to the top plate.
Vintage TV Robot
Tin with plastic legs, hands, & battery cover
about 12" tall without radar
Made in Japan, 1950's or 60's by Alps
walks forward with swinging arms, the mouth features moving lights and the color television image lights and animates. Rotating eyes and noise round out the performance.
The on/off switch is the most unique part of the extraordinary robot- it is the radar dish going into the head that starts him!
Robot War show at Robot Restaurant in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sneak preview of a just varnished new canvas for an upcoming gallery show.... "Bert the Robot vs. ????"
We are teaching a new maker art class called ‘Robot World’, to help children create their own artistic robots. This class for grades 4-5 is taking place at the Lycée Français in Sausalito. Students are learning how to make their bots move in a variety of ways, as well as play sounds and light up, using a programmable Arduino board.
This photo set covers our our first classes, when students designed their own robots, as well as a magical world for them to live in. They imagined a future space city connected to earth by a long elevator, and populated by robots and friendly demons. They named it Foodville: a peaceful world filled with food, including soda fountains, cars powered by slushies, with cotton candy clouds and a sea of apple juice.
Students created animated characters designed to make their world a better place: two police bots, a care bot and a friendly devil. They can throw marshmallows and cotton balls, to insure a life of ‘everlasting fun.’ In coming weeks, we will laser cut wooden figures based on their designs, and they will assemble their bots, make them move, then decorate them, give them a story, and present a robot show to their friends and families.
Each student received their own robot kit, which they will learn to assemble, control and program. They will then take their completed robot home with them, after the class ends. For this course, my partner Edward Janne and I have created our own robot kit, using an Arduino Feather M0 for the robot, an RF remote, a custom chassis, plus three additional servos and more parts. Our robot kit is similar to commercial products, but with a lot more features at a lower cost.
View more photos of our ‘Robot World’ class:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157687758927575
Learn more about our ‘Robot World’ class at the Lycee:
fabriceflorin.com/2017/08/18/robot-world/
Learn more about our Maker Art classes:
fabriceflorin.com//teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about our ‘Create a Robot’ class for adults at Tam Makers:
www.tammakers.org/create-a-robot/
Learn more about Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley:
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Robotic arms are the thing that interest me the most, and the area that I've had the most first-hand experience with. MIT's work in robotic arm technology is nothing short of amazing.
Not pretty, sorry. This shows the general layout and location of the shutter timing gears and escapement in the RoBoT II and IIa.
None of this is visible without peeking around the edges, it's buried beyond the stuff you see in this photo.
In operation, a tab attached to the shutter disc runs into a flat projection on the large sector gear, just as it reaches the full open position. The sector gear is forced clockwise, and is engaged with a series of step-up gears that resist its motion by inertia. At the slowest speeds, the pallet is engaged with the teeth of the star wheel to slow the gears down further. Once the sector gear has been pushed completely out of the way, the disc continues rotation until the tab stops at the position where it's marked here with dashed lines, just peeking out from behind the disc axle bearing. A hair spring then returns the sector gear to its starting position.