Category Archives: robots

Cool knitting machine

Posted on January 25, 2023 by robertwilkie

It only makes a french braid. But still pretty clever build. https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/french-knitting-machine-video-94850?homelistings#post217012

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Ant weight robot class

Posted on January 17, 2023 by robertwilkie

Nice article about building lightweight robots for battles https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/antweight-combat-robot-tips-shared-from-experience/

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Interesting farm platform (acorn)

Posted on March 24, 2022 by robertwilkie

The author is pretty colorful. Its using an ardiuno/RPi combo for controlling it, right now its just the platform and its goal is to automate farming. I think this looks interesting, but has a ways to go.

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Cool CVT wheel design

Posted on December 30, 2021 by robertwilkie

Interesting build.

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A robot shovel

Posted on December 27, 2021 by robertwilkie

OK everything in this is in german, but the pictures and video give you the basic jist, its a CNC’ed out parts to make basically a giant scooper for a hand for a robot arm. https://www.instructables.com/GripGrab/

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Converting old hoverboards

Posted on December 25, 2021 by robertwilkie

So I came across some old hoverboards that where tossed out, most likely to the batteries not holding charge anymore. I got to thinking of projects for these and found out that one, there is opensource firmware for some of … Continue reading →

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A simple security cam robot

Posted on December 6, 2021 by robertwilkie

OK so using an ESP-32, the author can remotely control the robot (well has to be on its wifi) to roam around and see whats going on.

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Interfacing RPi GPIO remotely

Posted on November 29, 2021 by robertwilkie

The author basically made a simple rest interface for the GPIO pins of an Raspberry Pi with an installer. This way you can interface it remotely.

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Nice CNC Etch-a-Sketch build

Posted on November 28, 2021 by robertwilkie

A bit older article, but its a nice build where the author can draw on an etch-a-sketch.

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Use RemoteXY to control a robot arduino

Posted on November 15, 2021 by robertwilkie

Basically its a wizard for creating an “app” to control an arduino via wireless. Seems pretty neat.

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