Brian Duggan made these totally sweet flyers for the event Other version include Optimus Prime, Data, and Crow T. Robot
Tortoise Bots
Tortoise Bots crawl!
Design totally ripped from CrabFu.comTom, Luke and I have been checking out our options for a project for Intersession next year. We found some cheap servos and have been considering doing small robots. Tom and I had a chance to try doing a mini class with them at Makerspace Urbana and it went really well!
Caroline's Robot
The bots are built using three servos and extra material to make legs. A microcontroller can then move the servos in the proper sequence to make it walk.
For the class, I hooked one up to a Wii Nunchuck. There are two options for controls: automatic and manual.
When holding the Z button, the bot is in manual mode, left/right on the analog stick move the front legs left/right. Up/down moves the back legs left/right. And, twisting the nunchuck in the air (roll) twists the robot's body so you can put weight on different legs.
Manual mode is fun and you can make it walk, but automatic mode is much easier to do. Hold the C button to keep it in automatic, and then you just point the stick in the direction you want the bot to move and the microcontroller takes care of figuring out how to move the legs and body to make it go that direction.
