How to build robots?

rtp · 2012-09-06T06:52:35+00:00

Am a CS students so don't know anything about electronics and stuff... Since there are some great robot makers here, i thought i would ask. Are there any...

J4D

Yalla, get yourself guys together if you want a workshop. The space is ready. Lets agree on the time, attendees and we are set!

rtp

J4D wroteYalla, get yourself guys together if you want a workshop. The space is ready. Lets agree on the time, attendees and we are set!

ok great!

On a normal schedule What day and time can you fit us in?
Location?

I will be posting a new post later.

solo220

Hey robot geeks check this
http://robocraft.ru/

@babum see that NXT combined with an android phone.

kim

rule: any robot without a linux core is a toy.
edit: an RC toy

Leonedes

A workshop would be awesome!

J4D

kim wroterule: any robot without a linux core is a toy.
edit: an RC toy

You are right :) Nasa sent a toy to mars. Its a toy just because it does not have a "Linux core".
The robot below is built with NXT :D

On more serious and useful note. We will get this workshop thing started when im back! In the meantime Get yourselves together and decide on what we should focus on.

arithma

Look at this very expensive toy
Hehe, me and Jad had the same snarky comment to make.
Anyway, where's all the hate for toys coming from!

m0ei

Nice, look at this list of "toys".

solo220

Well i don't want to change the robot topic BUT
That issue of toys,toys,toys,.... need to be solved
I think we are under estimating toys , because we learn through toys , i mean i see every thing around me as toys , even humans sometimes :-p.
Dealing with things as toys give me the feeling of happiness , the Motivation,...
seeing that dumb motor , screen , cpu , .... doing exactly as i planned to is always like the big prize for me.
any way don't bother back to real life :-( .

kim

J4D wroteYou are right :) NASA sent a toy to mars. Its a toy just because it does not have a "Linux core".
The robot below is built with NXT :D

you're wrong Mr Jad, NASA mars rover never been built on NXT, ill explain something you didnt got about NXT software it a >>>>lego<<<< check this link http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/whatisnxt/default.aspx
"the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Software is powered by NI LabVIEW" the NI LabVIEW is the sofware used by NASA and all scientists over the world not the NXT. can you imagine that NASA scientists monitoring their rover using NXT or a variation of it like this:

nb:Linux isn't necessary if you can build your own operating system for the Robot like NASA did, for me i prefer linux

solo220

@ Kim I think he was joking about the NXT been in the NASA robot :-) .

JAD says
On more serious and useful note. We will get this workshop thing started when im back! In the meantime Get yourselves together and decide on what we should focus on.

m0ei

LOL @Kim !!

Seriously ? He was joking dude.

kim

@solo220 ,@solo220 id LOL too i thought he was serious, because he's already serious about theses rc toys(no offense im just trying to set the bar at the right level)
check this link http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/whatisnxt/default.aspx

thought sorry;)

J4D

LabVIEW not NXT you idiot! Learn proper English then go grab some common sense. Maybe after you do these 2 things you can argue with me. People like the bozo above make me sick.

m0ei

kim wrotehttp://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9500/seriouslb.png

I think you should learn how to read first, and then you should learn how to to write proper english. Read that paragraph again, NXT software is powered by LabVIEW which was used for helping to control the NASA Pathfinder eploration....

kim

J4D wroteIn the "bot" i think i was trying Bluetooth control.

see Bluetooth control for a bot! what the heck?! is this a kind of sorcery?? a Bluetooth control can be more useful for a vibrator:P, we need worldwide control or something farther like NASA did
Peace J4d im just kidding i mean no offense seriously we can meet and ill teach you some serious robotic skills

arithma

If I was your father, of any of the three of you, I would have been very disappointed.

kim

m0ei wroteNXT software is powered by LabVIEW which was used for helping to control the NASA Pathfinder eploration....

maybe my english is worst than j4d rc toys i admit that, but where did you quote that? i need reference please

solo220

Well, sometimes you regret talking to someone when you discover his dumb
and i regret that i've talked to that QiM

m0ei

@Kim, stop bashing other people work, I'm purely 100% sure that you don't know 5% of what J4D knows in robotics.

About the reference, it's from the screenshot you took..... Read again the last paragraph, it's about Labview not NXT. They are only saying that NXT software is powered by LabVIEW and then explaining what LabVIEW is used for.

Here's another reference http://www.ni.com/white-paper/8536/en

Since its introduction in 1986, LabVIEW has become the industry standard tool for measurement and control applications. With more than 25,000 industrial users, LabVIEW has been used in different kinds of applications from industrial automation to teaching concepts in schools. With its roots in test and measurement, LabVIEW is used to design, control, and test consumer products and systems such as MP3 and DVD players, cell phones, and vehicle air bag safety systems. Applications include helping to control the NASA Mars Pathfinder exploration to testing the Microsoft Xbox gaming consoles. LabVIEW is an open platform that has enabled an ecosystem to be developed including:

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