Ansgar Schmidt Oct 16, 2024
DIY 3D-Printed Arduino Self-Balancing Cube https://hackaday.com/2024/10/13/diy-3d-printed-arduino-self-balancing-cube/ #self-balancingcube #microcontrollers #microcontroller #selfbalancing #robotshacks #bluetooth #arduino #pcbway #motor #cube
DIY 3D-Printed Arduino Self-Balancing Cube

Self-balancing devices present a unique blend of challenge and innovation. That’s how [mircemk]’s project caught our eye. While balancing cubes isn’t a new concept — Hackaday has …

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GeekProjects NewsAug 29, 2024
Reconfigurable Tracked Robot Has Some Neat Flexible Abilities https://hackaday.com/2024/08/29/reconfigurable-tracked-robot-has-some-neat-flexible-abilities/ #trackedrobot #RobotsHacks #tracked #linked #tracks #robot
Reconfigurable Tracked Robot Has Some Neat Flexible Abilities

When you think of tracked robots, you might think of bomb disposal robots or others used in military applications. You probably haven’t seen anything quite like this, however—it’s a &#8…

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GeekProjects NewsAug 27, 2024
Robots Collaborate To Localize Themselves Precisely https://hackaday.com/2024/08/26/robots-collaborate-to-localize-themselves-precisely/ #localization #RaspberryPi4 #RobotsHacks #algorithm #robot #IMU
Robots Collaborate To Localize Themselves Precisely

Here’s the thing about robots. It’s hard for them to figure out where to go or what they should be doing if they don’t know where they are. Giving them some method of localization…

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GeekProjects NewsAug 11, 2024
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis https://hackaday.com/2024/08/11/achieving-human-level-competitive-robot-table-tennis/ #tabletennisrobot #RobotsHacks #pingpong #robot #ping #pong
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

A team at Google has spent a lot of time recently playing table tennis, purportedly only for science. Their goal was to see whether they could construct a robot which would not only play table tenn…

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GeekProjects NewsAug 11, 2024
Inside the Mecanum Wheel https://hackaday.com/2024/08/11/inside-the-mecanum-wheel/ #mecanumwheels #RobotsHacks #360movement #omni-wheel #omniwheel
Inside The Mecanum Wheel

If you make anything that moves, like a robot, you quickly realize that turning can be a pain. That’s why there are a number of designs for wheels that can go in different directions. One of …

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GeekProjects NewsAug 11, 2024
Robot Arm Gives Kids the Roller Coaster Ride of their Lives https://hackaday.com/2024/08/10/robot-arm-gives-kids-the-roller-coaster-ride-of-their-lives/ #motionsimulator #rollercoaster #RobotsHacks #robotarm #gaming #KUKA #NUC
Robot Arm Gives Kids The Roller Coaster Ride Of Their Lives

Unfortunately, [Dave Niewinski]’s kids are still too little to go on a real roller coaster. But they’re certainly big enough to be tossed around by this giant robot arm roller coaster s…

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GeekProjects NewsAug 7, 2024
Obscure Sci Fi Robots https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/obscure-sci-fi-robots/ #sciencefiction #RobotsHacks #movies
Obscure Sci Fi Robots

Even if you don’t like to build replicas of movie robots, you can often draw inspiration from cinema. Everyone knows Robby the Robot, Gort, and R2D2. But [Atomic Snack Bar] treats us to some …

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GeekProjects NewsJul 30, 2024
Re-imagining Telepresence With Humanoid Robots and VR Headsets https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/re-imagining-telepresence-with-humanoid-robots-and-vr-headsets/ #VirtualReality #humanoidrobot #Teleoperation #stereocamera #telepresence #RobotsHacks #robotics #vr
Re-imagining Telepresence With Humanoid Robots And VR Headsets

Don’t let the name of the Open-TeleVision project fool you; it’s a framework for improving telepresence and making robotic teleoperation far more intuitive than it otherwise would be. I…

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GeekProjects NewsJul 28, 2024
An RC Tracked Robot, Without The Pain https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/an-rc-tracked-robot-without-the-pain/ #3Dprintedrobot #RobotsHacks #raspberrypi #robot
An RC Tracked Robot, Without The Pain

Small robots can be found at all levels from STEM toys for kids all the way through to complex hacker projects. Somewhere along that line between easy enough for anyone to build and interesting eno…

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GeekProjects NewsJul 26, 2024
A Robot Face with Human Skin https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/a-robot-face-with-human-skin/ #softrobotics #RobotsHacks #biorobotics #biomimetic #biomimicry #humanoid #Science #robot
A Robot Face With Human Skin

Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to affix human skin to robot faces.…

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