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Meet the new family members

May I introduce you to the new family members: Farrusco v2.5, and Farrusco Junior. Farrusco v2 is the new generation of my first robot Farrusco. The F2 was created with Filipe Valpereiro from InMotion.pt, and this was the robot used for the last robotics workshops season. The F2.5 version has a cleaner design, we are [...]

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Servo Suspension System

This is my first experiment with the MakerBot. I am totally thrilled with this machine!!! (photo by Tiago Serra) SSS (servo suspension system) is designed to support standard servo motors and act as a basic suspension. It is still a work in progress and has not been tested yet. Will update results as soon as [...]

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Talkie Walkie Tutorial

I was asked to document how I did the talkie walkie bot, and you can take a look at the tutorial in the original post: http://lab.guilhermemartins.net/talkie-walkie/

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zezinho, the poser – interactive installation

This is the final result of the first stage of this project. An installation where zezinho calls for visitors and when a visitor reachs the mixing controllers he waits for new poses. If you are nearby Lisbon, you can visit zezinho until 9 of July at: FABRICA FEATURES Lisboa. Rua Garrett, nº83 | Megastore United [...]

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el sapatero

OddBot is going to China, and he created several packs with robotics stuff and came up with a great creative challenge wich is to create a video with the keyword FUN. One of the extra points was to build something with paper, wood, and cheap materials, no techy thing here, the main purpose was to [...]

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Zezinho, the poser

This is Zezinho, a humanoid robot that likes to pose! :) All the microservo supports where made with the amazing material Polymorph. For now he is being controlled by 8 analog inputs, each input controls one microservo. In the future (as I hope) he will be controlled by a computer vision system where he will [...]

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HiTec Servo Hack

Just finished another walkthrough about hacking a HiTec servo and make it spin continuosly. Follow it on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guibot/sets/72157617531839610/ Instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/HiTec-Servo-Hack/ HiTec Servo Hack – More DIY How To Projects

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my 1st Instructable – Control your motors with an L293D and Arduino

Control your motors with an L293D and Arduino Control your motors with L293D and Arduino – More DIY How To Projects

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Workshop Robótica Criativa – 1ª edição

Este fim de semana tive o prazer de dar a primeira edição de Workshops de Robótica Criativa no Porto no espaço Imerge e com o apoio fantástico da Inmotion.pt. 14 participantes vindos de áreas completamente distintas tiveram a oportunidade de construir um robot semelhante ao Farrusco mas com bastantes acréscimos, entre eles, resistências fotosensíveis para [...]

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Farrusco 2.0

This is the new version of Farrusco, tomorrow we will build a bunch of them at the workshop, and you will be able to build your own very soon.. We are planning more future workshops!  ;) Say hello Farrusco!!  :)

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