| Blog series by ChrisCook | updated 345 days ago | 2 parts | 407 reads | 7 comments total |
Part 1: Small Scale Bot's Got Brains, or Does it?
To note, I have named this series Carpe Mens Mentis “Seize the Mind” in reference to the “mind” of everything we build in electronics. It is odd how even the simplest of locomotive electronic “dumb-bots” can, at times, appear to have sophisticated sensing abilities. While this is odd to me, it is absolutely amazing to my kids. Recently, I built a couple little 1.5v bug bots for my two kids. These are very simple “robots” who only know they ha...
Part 2: Learning More About Sketchup
With a lot of help from DaveR, I have started to learn a little bit about using sketchup. After finishing my fence layout in sketchup I decided to try my hand at designing a little rover robot. This was a much more challenging project than my previous one. It was a fun experience, and I plan to start getting more complex in my designs as I am slowly learning how to create my Army of digital minions! Har Har Har! This little one is a roving video bot. The two antennas on the back are for co...
Follow along as I trek through time, one day at a time. I am a woodworker, a robot builder, a concrete artist, and a tech junkie. My topics of interests will ebb and flow so often that I will even be left wondering how I arrived at an answer for a problem I didn't know I was pondering.
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