ROBOTmaker News / Blog
Feb 2009 - See the Nano chassis on
Youtube:
Jan
2009
- Some of us have been busy prototyping various
chassis kits for the Robot Swarm Project for Schools.
These are
tested using special development boards for the PicAxe and Organutan
contollers. Nano chassis kits are also being prepared for
production.
Dec 2008
- Robot Swarm Project for Schools
. After many requests
we are now started prototyping a range of micro chassis and complete kits
for school robot challenges. The aim is to create easy construction kits
containing all the parts required to allow students to gain skills with
mechanics, electronics, maths and programming. The main challenge is to
design the kit so it can be easily assembled within the first technology
lesson at the same time making it easy to manufacture at low cost.
We also intend to create versions with grippers and
track-drives. The range will include chassis sizes of 100mmx100mm, 50mm x
50mm and 35mm x 35mm version (picture above).
Nov
2008
- Nano Prototyping Chassis - As the 25mm cubed nano robot chassis is very small to work with
during prototyping, we've now
developed a 10mm taller version so prototyping is easier i.e. we've added some more space
to allow some room for connectors, cables and more room to get batteries, motors and sensors in
and out with out too much fiddling around. This chassis will be featured
soon in our nano robot product section and is available immediately for the same
price..
Oct 2008
- During the summer period we've been working on various
college projects which has taken up all of our research and development
capacity.
Over the next months we'll be streamlining our new
product portfolio and after many requests we'll be focusing on the
completion of our nano
chassis range of swarm robot kits.
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ROBOTmaker
supply Swarm project
ROBOTmaker
supply the I-Swarm / Jasmine 'collective micro-robotics' project at the
Stuttgart university, Germany
ROBOTmaker
supplied various I-swarm / 'Jamine Projects “Collective
Micro-robotics Team” with
MegaBitty controller boards and nano
size motor
parts. ......Read
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Development of
customised robot swarm solutions for your college robot project.
ROBOTmaker
can provide total swarm solutions
including customised robot chassis or special versions of our standard
robot chassis. We have our own CNC prototyping workshop,
were customised one-off designs can be machined according to your own specifications.
Our
CNC machines can machine small
batches of custom robot designs. The maximum size we can handle is
1000mm x 600mm.
Ideally
we'll need drawings in one of the following formats:
-
CDR - CorelDRAW
-
DXF
(RT12/LT2) - AutoCad
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DWG
(2000) - AutoCad
-
PLT
- HPGL plot data
or
you can mark-up changes to our standard robot chassis design which
you can download from here.
For
a quotation just send your details to 
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Are
you new
to Robotics?
If you are new to
hobby robots, then have a look at "What are Robots"
provided as an Open University online-course....Read
more
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School,
College, University Project Support
Autonomous
robotics (AR) are no longer restricted to the electronics labs but are now
regarded as serious study aids in in a wide range of other study areas. AR is
recognised as excellent tool for demonstration of concepts, theories and principles
in almost any subject, such as biology and biomimetics,
engineering, mathematical modeling and simulation.
If
you're still searching for a challenging project this term, then
take a look at our research
pages and forum
for ideas for your robot project.
Do you need more information? Then register your interest in
the forum or contact: 
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Robotics
Stimulates Science and Technology Learning
Robots
& robotics have become an important learning and research tool and is already integrated into many school and college course curriculums. Robots
are proving a new stimulated interests into science and technology
bringing 'alive' computer programming, electronics, mechatronics and artificial life
simulation and biomimetics.
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Partnership
During
2008 we'll continue to work together with our partners to develop further exciting and
innovative robot solutions.
Our
preferred approach is to work closely with educational and research
institutes as partners to build customized robot solutions that can be used in
the classroom, research projects, robotic club or merely as a fascinating
hobby. If you are interested in working with a reliable partner to support your project then please contact
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