Omnibot was every boys dream in the mid 1980’s. If you had one, then you also had a complement of jealous friends, me included. Just another example of how 25 years takes away the feeling of “I have to have one” and replaces it with the feeling “I don’t want that junk, I have something much better.”
Building this out of Lego would be pretty cool, and the best part is that we could make it with many, many more functions.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday's Idea
Here’s an idea that I think is pretty cool, a robot that lays bricks. Not Lego bricks, but regular construction bricks.
There have been a few artists and companies that have actually commercialized this and create wonderful works of art. Here is another link to a different company.
Make Magazine recently did an article on some of the mathematics that is required to make some really impressive textures on some walls.
I have tinkered with some of the math, and it is pretty detailed. I hope to get into this project in the future (get in line, buddy). If I do get into this project I would probably use something like dominos or home made wooden bricks to mimic the bricks and I think a gantry style robot will be much easier to construct and program.
There have been a few artists and companies that have actually commercialized this and create wonderful works of art. Here is another link to a different company.
Make Magazine recently did an article on some of the mathematics that is required to make some really impressive textures on some walls.
I have tinkered with some of the math, and it is pretty detailed. I hope to get into this project in the future (get in line, buddy). If I do get into this project I would probably use something like dominos or home made wooden bricks to mimic the bricks and I think a gantry style robot will be much easier to construct and program.
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