DO THE ROBOT How-To Videos & Articles

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How to make an edible robot

Make an edible robot

A five minute film on how to make your own edible robot. Edible robotics is an exciting new field of research into robots as food and prey ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by bird crick | Comments 7
Views 9,437

How to build an android animatronic

Build an android animatronic

Systm is the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest ...more

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Curated last month by rmansur | Comments 0
Views 424

How to make a light sensing robot

Make a light sensing robot

Mousey the junk bot is a light sensing robot made out of an old computer mouse. Bre Pettis of Make Magazine goes over how the pieces are ...more

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Curated 2 years ago by elquesogrande23 | Comments 0
Views 6,463

How to get started with robotics

Get started with robotics

If you are interested in starting with robotics, than this video is for you. Watch Bre Pettis create his own robot, and in the process learn ...more

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Curated 2 years ago by elquesogrande23 | Comments 0
Views 2,821

How to make a Reprap robot

Make a Reprap robot

Check out this video to learn how to make a RepStrap robot. This project entails LOTS of materials. The only way you can learn what to use ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by WonderHowTo | Comments 0
Views 2,173

How to make miniature robots

Make miniature robots

Check out this Make Magazine segment on building mini robots. Then you can move onto huge ones like Big Dog! John Park builds some lively ...more

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Curated 9 months ago by rmansur | Comments 6
Views 9,620

How to build a beam bot twin motor robot base

Build a beam bot twin motor robot base

This robot is BEAM bot inspired. First we build up the Motor Drive, an excellent and cheap Robot Bot-Base. We start with the Tamiya kit ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by Amie Coué Arbuckle | Comments 0
Views 5,361

How to make a cockroach robot

Make a cockroach robot

Check out this instructional robot video that demonstrates how to make an cockroach robot (part two provides instructions on making an ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by bird crick | Comments 1
Views 4,171

How to hack together the DIY video chat robot

Hack together the DIY video chat robot

Sparky is a wireless, web-based video-chat robot from the Gomi Style crew. You can learn how to make your own Autonomous Telepresence robot ...more

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Curated 10 months ago by bird crick | Comments 1
Views 1,705

How to use a wiimote to control a Lego robot

Use a wiimote to control a Lego robot

A video tutorial on how to use the wiimote to control a Lego NXT robot. Link to download GlovePie: http://carl.kenner.googlepages ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by cwiltz | Comments 1
Views 1,725

How to build a tinyCylon robot kit

Build a  tinyCylon robot kit

This week I made the tinyCylon kit from the Maker Shed. It's a fun little project that has a lot of cool light patterns programmed onto the ...more

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Curated 10 months ago by rmansur | Comments 1
Views 2,610

How to build a mousebot robot from make magazine

Build a mousebot robot from make magazine

Herbie the Mousebot is a very quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect for beginners. This little robot is so quick, you have ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 0
Views 5,096

How to make a robot spider

Make a robot spider

Here's how to make an electric motor with some wire. It looks like a cool spider.

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Curated 1 year ago by Amie | Comments 12
Views 25,546

How to build a Swashbot robot

Build a Swashbot  robot

This is a three part video on how to make a swashbot robot. Check it out!

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Curated 1 year ago by Amie | Comments 1
Views 4,876

How to make toy robot scorpions

Make toy robot scorpions

This scorpion toy was constructed by Make Magazine with a Twitchie Robot Kit. If you're afraid of real life scorpions this friendly toy ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by bird crick | Comments 2
Views 2,979

MLB Robot

MLB Robot

University of Tokyo and MIT join forces to create a high speed, three fingered, robot pitcher. From Pink Tentacle: "To demonstrate the ...more

Robots Wonderment
By rmansur | Comments 2
Views 1,669

Creepy Crawler Ant Robot

Creepy Crawler Ant Robot

Wow, this robot has incredible movement. "A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a 3 DOF head with large ...more

Robots Wonderment
By rmansur | Comments 1
Views 2,224

Just Released: Blob Morphing 'Bot

Just Released: Blob Morphing 'Bot

iRobot released their new soft blob morphing robot this past Tuesday. The amazing shape-shifter has the ability to squeeze through tiny ...more

Robots Wonderment
By rmansur | Comments 0
Views 4,716

No-Fail Robot Catcher Astounds

No-Fail Robot Catcher Astounds

This amazing ball catching robot named TOTO (Tracking of Thrown Objects) has been built to speed up "fully automated production systems ...more

Robots Wonderment
By rmansur | Comments 1
Views 24,192

How to set up and use a Gigapan robot

Set up and use a Gigapan robot

Illah Nourbakhsh of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute teaches you how to set up and use your Gigapan robotic system. Watch all four ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by Amie | Comments 0
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Holiday HowTo: DIY Felt Ball Wreath

Fed up with your boring ol' traditional holiday wreath? Ditch the greenery and go extra festive this year with this felt ball wreath HowTo, courtesy of Norwegian craft blog Pickles. P.S. You'll need ...

Art Borne From the Barrel of a Gun

Incredible high speed photography, capturing bullets piercing objects (via Flickr user Alex Andrea Broderick). Previously, Speeding Bullet at 1,000,000 FPS.

Beautiful Animated Boxes Conducted by Drummer

You don't want to miss this animation. The overall concept -particularly the color, movement and sound- is beautiful. The piece is entitled "Box Animation, performed by Mike Edel, and created by ...

Real Life Plastic Green Army Man

Whether you're into cosplay or not, this life sized army "figurine" is awesome. The photo realistic plastic toy soldier was a contestant in a cosplay competition at Italy's Lucca Comics ...

I Want a Robo-Chef in My Kitchen

This year's FOOMA International Food Machinery and Technology Exhibition had a few robots I wouldn't mind hanging around my kitchen. The sushi-bot's hand is amazing... if only it could make the sushi ...

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