Half-Built-Robots: page 4

January 2022, this was at the San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore. I went with my husband (boyfriend at the time) early in our relationship. I had just moved out to the Bay Area (Dublin) in…

Orion was a project I tackled in undergrad. I wanted to build a mobile base that could be used for experimentation (and I wanted it to be sturdy). Plus I had just gotten access to a makerspace and…

This is a short retrospective post on my home automation setup back in undergrad at MSOE. Unfortunately this was not well documented, but it was an interesting start to my home automation tinkering…

Triclops is another one of my incomplete projects. It started while I was a freshman at Milwaukee School of Engineering. My goal was to build a Spinbot: a single motor robot that modulates its speed…

RoverBot is an RC car hack gone wrong (but with plenty of lessons learned along the way). To set the scene, I was in early high school, having built a few BEAM robots and finished up the LEGO…

The People and Robots Lab at UW-Madison (formerly the HCI Lab) got two of these for free from Mayfield Robotics. We never did anything with them except let them roam the floor. They would make their…

Generally, I love my Third Reality Smart Switches. I currently have three single-pole light switches configured (garage, kitchen, and hallway) and a three-way light switch for the stairs, all without…

My goal someday is to have a nearly fully automated smart house with robot butlers serving me drinks on voice command. Unfortunately I am not there yet. I do, however, have a start to my home…

A quick break from the semi-rigorous robotics discussion… Hex Bugs (officially HEXBUG) were cool. Not just the tiny ones that were only bristles and a vibromotor, but the slightly larger toys…

After I worked with the LEGO Mindstorms kit (see my post here), I moved on to BOE-Bot, an educational robotics kit that teaches basic electric circuits and robot control. I picked up my kit at the Boy…