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Fast Robot Prototyping

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the zero-to-hal-in-sixty-seconds dept.

Lana writes "This article walks you through various materials and techniques you can use to physically build a robotic prototype. See how to build a fast and easy prototype that can be disassembled, reconfigured, and reassembled. This article builds on a previous articles, entitled 'How to drive your wireless robot.'"

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  1. Robots and cars by zegebbers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    are excellent for getting kids interested in science/engineering. These sorts of things can be modified and are fun to learn so they're perfect. The prices are also relatively modest compared to other expenses.

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    1. Re:Robots and cars by fastgood · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Robots and cars ... are excellent for getting kids interested in science/engineering"

      Give a kid a fish and he eats for a day.
      Give a kid a car, and he gets interested in everything *but* science and engineering...

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  2. Re:Public Alphas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm all for it. I'm 24 and, thank the FSM, was given Legos to play and for some years basically grew up on a construction site. I'm now an electrical engineering student. I have some ME majors come to me for help with prototyping stuff -- we're talking about people who can use a CAD/CAM system like gods but can't operate a drill press.

    Anything that gets people to build stuff instead of playing xbox is good.

  3. Re:Beautiful... by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and I think that kids interested in science is something we really need. I mean, if we want to keep a strong science industry going, we need the future generation, basically anyone my age or younger (18), to not only use computers and techno-toys, but understand them to some degree.

  4. Re:Public Alphas by h0tr0d · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Anything that gets people to build stuff instead of playing xbox is good.
    Exaclty how I feel. That's why when my 7 year old expressed interest in robots when he was 5 I jumped at the opportunity to start teaching him how to build things. He's got a collection of Lego Galidor space robots he started building, morphing, and even hacking when he was 5. This summer he moved up to building a working model of an internal combustion engine and helped me build a mousey junkbot. I'm taking advantage of his interest to make sure gets a well rounded skill set to include both the mechanical and electronic.

    I worked for a small firm a few years ago and spent more time doing mechanical engineering stuff than electronic. I was the only one in the office who had any idea how to prototype the mechanical side of our electronic products and who could design them in CAD to produce the necessary blueprints to send to production.