Category: Robotics

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RB5X Service Robot Build – part 2

  • March 3, 2026
It moves! Not autonomous yet, but it can be controlled via Bluetooth. I used an Arduino Uno, a XBee Bluetooth module, and a HW-095 motor controller. I can send it…
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Robie Jr. – Toy Robot Repair

  • February 25, 2026
I came across a non-working Robie Jr. robot from the 80s. After taking it apart, I noticed that some solder joints were broken, the wheel treads were falling apart, and…
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RB5X Service Robot Build – part 1

  • February 24, 2026
I have always had a thing for the service droids that were popular among robot enthusiast in the 70s-80s, but finding one of these vintage bots is near impossible now.…
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GLaDOS Animatronic

  • December 14, 2024
I’m a big fan of the Portal series, so I had to have a GLaDOS robot mounted on my pegboard. This is what I came up with: The head is…
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BEAM Headbot

  • December 3, 2022
This is a simple BEAM robot (BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics, and it describes a style of robotics developed by Mark Tilden in the late…
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R.O.B. Robot Hack

  • January 7, 2022
This was a fun electronics project that I did a few years ago. I hacked an old Nintendo NES R.O.B Robot to be controllable from a PC via a webpage…