Anybody interested in robotics? I know I am. If so, post me here on what you know.

Seyi i wanted to go study a crash course on it in the UK but the stupid high commission people didn't allow me even after i paid the fees, heeeediots!!
I always wanted to make robots, its been apassion since childhood of using LEGO toys
anyway, i am in the IT field now, managing it

Robotics especially nano-robotics and Nano-technology in general is an interest of mine too.

You dont need to go to college to get involved in some simple robotics projects. The easiest way if u dont want to get into any electronics stuff is to use Lego mindstorms http://mindstorms.lego.com/. Lots of books are available online or can be bought at amazon that shows you how to go about creating and programming the RCX microcontroller

I study robotics at the university. So I guess you could say that I am interested

check these out.

general info

http://www.advancedrobotics.com/
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/bbhist.html

advanced robotics

http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_160.html
http://www.transit-port.net/AI.CogSci.Robotics/neural.html
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/2/reviews/rouchier.html
http://www.advancedrobotics.com/

if u want to build yours

http://www.robotroom.com/

http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/hb_robotics/article/0,2033,DIY_13886_2278220,00.html

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Trade%20Paper:Sale:0072226013:12.98

wanna chat with an Artificial Intelligence robot? try:

http://www.cooldictionary.com/splotchy.mpl

only if they can cook ogbono soup

yes i am interested in robotics and automation generally.one book you'll find this book interesting:robot builders bonanza by gordon mccomb.men you need to have this book.

I'm a robotics hobbyist. I've been playing with microcontrollers for a long time but the first complete programmable robot i built was from parallax's boe-bot kit i bought from Radioshack. Parallax make Basic Stamp microcontrollers series and their Pbasic software is easy just as Basic programming language. Vex robotics is good as well for beginners. So yes, am interested in robotics and love to build electronics projects in general.

so, in the final analysis-YOU ARE A ROBOTICS HOBBYIST?

Yep. Thats what i do.

so, that's what you do huh?

not a bad idea, i am actually interested in robotics and might end up specialising in it as a masters course.

MEN this is cool always wanted to do stuff like this after my school project with micro controller PIC, WAHT WAS TH ENO. AGAIN

PIC , CAN REMEMBER TH E ACTUAL no but guys fill me in on first steps

thanks

feel me in on some info pl s
thanks guys

all the info u need are in the links above

Hey Ynot could you help me get the "Parallax boe - bot kit" Men i need it i haven't even got a kit i have not started I am tryin to get Kits but i have no cash no connections if you could get for me abeg post me

Hey markesh what university you goin maybe my Junior brother can go there

I believe we are all missing on important point. Theres not much sense in wanting or loving robotics without a reasonable grounding in artifical intelligence and programming of artificial neural networks. So lets talk about that, cos we are only discussing what others have been able to do applying this knowledge, lets oroginate our own ideas.

you are off the mark there, young 'un. u dont need any grounding in AI or neural nets to appreciate bots or to want to build one. except if u aim to build the next ASIMO or AIBO or a swarm of self-correcting bots using distributed intelligence. these guys are hobbyists and just wanna build a runaround so your basic nAxis algorithm will do.

Markesh which school are thou goin to

Eh yo i've been thinking of the same thing but we are talking of $152000 HERE MEN

Neoteny, IM glad u have an ego cos it means u have something dat can be both a blessing and a, At any rate, what I was suggesting is that rather dan join the bandwagon and enjoy the benefits of other peoples intellectual muscle flexing, we should engender discourses that will spur similar trends and possibly yield results that would make theirs pale into obscurity. THATS THE CHALLENGE.

redmonsoon:

Neoteny, IM glad u have an ego because it means u have something that can be both a blessing and a, At any rate, what I was suggesting is that rather dan join the bandwagon and enjoy the benefits of other peoples intellectual muscle flexing, we should engender discourses that will spur similar trends and possibly yield results that would make theirs pale into obscurity. THATS THE CHALLENGE.

no need for the jibe at my ego. all i said in response to your high-falutin post was that these guys are amateur bot builders and enthusiasts who want to do something simple. you said "theres not much sense, " in having this enthusiasm without a grounding in AI and ANN. i only aim to say you can appreciate stuff without knowing the underlying cogs and wheels interplay.

I've got plenty of interests in robotics. If you want to see one that I've built, check this out:

login to my ftp server: ftp://129.21.251.157 with username: oopic and password: balbot

I know the video is pretty large. . . I'll work on recoding it to reduce the size - but a dsl connection should get it within a few minutes. . . 56k downloaders. . .umm. . yeah, i'm working on a smaller one for you!

My thesis is mostly AI stuff, I've worked on robots for FIRST robotics (a high school competition in the USA) as well as IGVC (http://www.igvc.org) another competition that is held within the USA (though it is an international competition - this past year there were teams from Canada, India, and Japan).

hello
do u really know how to mwke ROBOTS,if really i would love to know how.
cos i really such a practical stuff.

Hello

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@NEOTENY
THANKS FOR THAT, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. U ARE THE FIRST PERSON TO GIVE ME A REPLY IN HERE

always welcome. cheers.