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 | DIY Chess Playing Robotic Arm
We've seen a few chess robots in the past, but nothing quite this complicated. In this build, the chess board will actually rotate to move within reach of the robot arm. The arm itself moves along an axis to move each piece. You can play... |
 | Play Chess on a 12'x12' board with 100,000 Lego Pieces
Team Hassenplug has created a chess set which uses 32 Lego NXT Kits to play out a giant game of robotic chess. Each individual piece contains an NXT kit and is capable of moving to any square on the board using a recursive algorithm that will... |
 | Giant Mechanical Spider Robot!
We've seen a giant spider robot which can scale buildings, but here's one you can actually ride and control yourself. Originally created for the Burning Man festival, this beast weighs 1,700 pounds and although it's pretty clanky and giant, the... |
 | Robotic Fire Breathing Dragon!
Two high school students built this beast in their garage! Awesome work, especially for someone still in high school. This might even beat out the fire breathing snowman we posted last winter. For more information on the project, check out the... |
 | Incredible Robot Balances Perfectly on a Ball
We've featured some basic segway-like self balancing robots with two wheels but we haven't seen anything like this. This unique robot uses three omni-wheels to maintain its balance on a spherical ball. As demonstrated in the video below, it... |
 | DIY Robotic Arm Chess Opponent
Playing chess against an on-screen computer is one thing, but it just doesn't match the realistic feel of a live chess game. By programming a Lynxmotion robotic arm in Python, this chess player created his own robotic opponent. The Python... |
 | Complex Robotic Hand Built using LEGOs
From a distance it may look like a regular robotic arm. Get close up though and you'll see this robotic claw is made entirely using LEGOs. This is no kid's project though, it's an attempt at a functional likeness of the human hand. To... |
 | Absolutely Ingenious Wooden Rube Goldberg Machine
The Marble Lifting Machine would probably impress even Leonardo da Vinci. Mere words cannot describe the play of physics and craft that goes into this machine which has a single task – take a steel marble and transport it to the top of the... |
 | Cocktail Robot Mixes the Perfect Drink
The 'Drink Making Unit' is for the geek who loves to create their own custom mixes. We've seen some impressive robot bar tenders before, but now you can have a desktop version. This one was created by Evil Mad Scientists Lenore and... |
 | DIY Telepresence Robotics - Mobile Video Chat
Sparky Jr is a homebuilt robot from basic hardware and leftover materials that acts as a mobile video telepresence robot. It has a forward mounted screen and webcam so you can chat as well as WiFi and computer hardware to enable the... |
