Brick Labs » Building Techniques http://brick-labs.com The Source for LEGO Robotics and Educational Materials Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:19:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Robots are Coming! http://brick-labs.com/building-techniques/240/the-robots-are-coming/ http://brick-labs.com/building-techniques/240/the-robots-are-coming/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:49:43 +0000 Eric http://brick-labs.com/building-techniques/240/the-robots-are-coming/ Even the yellow ones…

Cool looking robot.  Called the HoverBot 3K.

Full building instructions included.

About two years after Sandro built the HoverBot 3K instructions are now available. Feel free to use them. We would be happy if you
posted a picture of your own HoverBot 3K.

Apparently, it was originally built by his 8 year old son, with no help from Dad.  Impressive!

It uses some neat building ideas, without using any headlight bricks too.

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You often see people trying to mimic animals.  Especially in how they move.  I’ve seen robots that crawl, walk with 2 legs, walk with 4 legs, swim, slither and now… run.

Robert Full shared some ideas on TED way back in February 2005.  He shows some great research that was done in how certain critters can move so fast over such unstable mediums, such as screen, gravel, or vertically up a wall.

It’s definitely worth watching… maybe someone will create a running robot with some LEGO parts and some ideas from this video?  If you do, send me a link!  :)

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A neat way to make diagonal stripes for one of your MOCs.  SNOT building often takes some thinking outside the box… this method is pretty easy to replicate, and works well.

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