MAKE A ROBOT How-To Videos & Articles

Follow these make a robot tutorials to learn all about make a robot with WonderHowTo's collection of free how to videos, like Make a robot spider, Make a robot suit, and Make a cockroach robot.

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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
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How to make a robot suit

Make a robot suit

To build a robot suit you will need a football toy chest, a medium sized trash can, two old camera flashes, heater vent cover, two old Sega ...more

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Curated 2 years ago by Bobinski | Comments 0
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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
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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 1 year ago by elquesogrande23 | Comments 0
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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
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How to make a bristlebot (toothbrush robot, get it?)

Make a bristlebot (toothbrush robot, get it?)

The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by 5min | Comments 12
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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
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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
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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 2,778

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 9,448

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 386

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 5,024

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 4,799

How to make a wooden red robot sculpture

Make a wooden red robot sculpture

Sculptor Chris Yates demonstrates how he makes a wooden red robot sculpture from start to finish.

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Curated 1 year ago by Amie | Comments 0
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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 1,673

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
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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
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How to fold an origami crane with the DaVinci robot

Fold an origami crane with the DaVinci robot

Learn how to origami a crane with this demonstration by a Japanese surgeon. Watch as he makes origami with the DaVinci robot, a surgical ...more

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Curated 1 year ago by rmansur | Comments 8
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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 2,570

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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MAKE A ROBOT (97 how-to videos)

Eat Your Way Through the Periodic Table (Yum! Cupcakes)

Science geeks behold, the perfect dessert. The cupcake Periodic Table. Pretty simple to do-it-yourself. Start with basic cupcakes in a square mold and decorate! Previously, Knit the Periodic Table ...

Freehand Circle Drawing World Champion

Wait for it, wait for it... it happens really fast... at right about 1:05. Okay, maybe he's not a world champion, but a very cool party trick nonetheless. Here's one way to do it (not quite as perfect ...

Launch Cars Off Cliffs For Fun

More redneck fun. Bob Moravitz plus family and friends have created an 8 hour event of propelling vehicles off cliffs. Held yearly, admission is free but donations are encouraged (to cover insurance ...

Pimp Your Bike

That's right, cars aren't the only mode of transportation worth customizing. Dekochari, the Japanese art of pimping your bicycle: "Dekochari is a form of art bike indigenous to Japan dating back ...

Deadly Crossbow (Made With Newspaper)

Mythbusters decided to test whether an inmate could "kill another inmate across the hall using a crossbow made of newspaper": "Jamie and Adam built separate crossbows for the myth and ...

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