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 How Do I Share My How-To?It's really pretty easy, pictures and videos of the steps it takes to complete your project are stored on google video and picasaWeb. The "final" video is stored on YouTube. All this is controlled by our Creator's Tools. Basically, you start a project by writing up the project idea. Step 1. Sign up for a free Creator's Account to gain access to the Creator's Tools. Step 2. Login Step 3. Push the "Create New Project" button on the Creator's Tools. Make a name (you can change it later) for your project. And describe your plans to use as notes to guide the creation of the steps. Step 4. When you've finished providing all the steps to your project, shooting the videos and saving to google video via the Creator's Tool Panel, you are ready to write the introductory paragraph with an interesting story of how you did it, or how you do it in the case of a professional services presentation. Step 5. Last but not least create and upload the video (to YouTube) which is the video that will be used to summarize the project. If you were building a robot, this final video would show the robot running around, doing fun things that will inspire others to create their version of your project. That's it... Watch the views and ratings for your project pile up along with the sales commissions! Or get a customer because you showed how you remodel a house. |
FAQ About Becoming A CreatorQ. Why would I go to all that work, building something, then put it on a website like C What I Can Do? What's the point? A. Actually, there are a couple of forms for a reward:
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BEAM BOT: HexBug Exposed! ... 6424 Views When it goes, it goes like this... Forward motion until the feeler touches something which reverses the motor. When it backs up, the motor has a clutch that causes one leg to not move in reverse. The net effect is when the bug backs up, it turns, thus a simple object avoidance algorithm runs without a control computer to make it happen. I almost forgot, there is a clapper in the HexBug. Yeah, just clap and it reverses, whether it hits something or not. I forgot to show that in the video. Author's Assigned Keywords: BEAM Robots Robots Building an RFL Inspired Upright Robot Base ... 5351 Views This is my version of (at least) the base of an RFL upright robot. It works pretty well, but I can't go much further until I get my hands on one of those RFL Football Robots. Then, I'm going to want to make my RFL Robot Base into the most powerful line backer or maybe Center in the RFL... Geez, maybe the "Super Bowl?" Wait a minute. They use like a 9-Volt battery pack and a fancy gearmotor on each wheel... OK then. This bot will make a nice coach bot, or cheerBot... Maybe just half-time entertainment? Geez. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots RFL Robots DogBot the Robo Dog : Robotic WatchDog ... 71 Views DogBot is my first robotic dog project.
I was inspired by a guy who was building a Robot "watch dog." His dogbot was a little different than mine. I guess his junkbox had different items than mine. Anyway, his dogbot was great, so it inspired me to build my own. His dogbot had 4-wheel drive, mine two-wheel plus steering. I'd recommend 4 Wheel Drive so the dog can shift quickly from one direction to another. With steering control, poor dogBot has to backup to do a 180. Your programming life will be so much easier, your batteries will last longer and you can turn your dog more like a real dog. It can even chase it's own tail. But, unlike a real dog, a recharger is the only food this dog will need. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Pets Buggy Bot: Wire Frame Bot Body ... 2675 Views This is a project I call the buggyBot, not because it won't do what you ask it, but because I want to build a little buggy that runs around the room and gets itself into trouble...
I came up with the idea of using wire robot frames by looking at some of the creative bodies people built out of junk and wires, and extra components. I could see the advantages, you could change the whole body by grabbing and twisting. I thought the process could be used for more "traditional" bot bodies. I also had a couple of Toshiba 8080 (Yeh, I know what you're thinking) H Bridges I wanted to play with. This is the Wire Body Bot I created. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Motor Control Easy Cheap Robot Weekend Project ... 985 Views Convert an old broken down Rumble Bot into a wandering autonomous robot. It`s cheap and really easy to make an old Rumble Bot into a new, more self oriented obstacle avoiding Robot. Rumble Bot = 5 - 30 bucks (broken ones are fine, you are going to "gut" the electronics anyway. picAxe Motor Control PC board (comes with picAxe 08 chip) < $16 bucks picAxe 08m chip (less than 4 bucks) IR "Eyes": around $12 dollars, works in every light level, impervious to false triggers. A 0.22 uf capacitor on the output of the above to keep it from jittering the interrupt pin... My total cost = $35 USD... It`s an easy way (programmed in BASIC) and cheap way to learn about autonomous robots. Author's Assigned Keywords: Cheap Robot Easy to Make Robot Weekend Project Robots Robots robotics RFL Robot Out Of The Box Experience ... 2207 Views From thanking the Post Office guy for delivering the shipping box, to operating the robot! It's all here in this video. 1. Unpacking... Careful with all the packing peanuts. 2. Opening the box... You get a nice box with plenty of accessories. You can see the bot through a transparent cover. Not too flashy. They aren't marketing all over me with it. No, it's clean and simple and, if you've been watching the videos only and haven't seen one in person yet, be prepared to be happy. 3. Charge the battery. Instructions are actually sketchy about this. Let me be clear: It ships with niCads - give 'em an overnight charge, drain thoroughly, the usual niCad care and keeping. 4. Turn on the console, it should ship set up to control your bot. 5. Turn on the Bot. After announcing itself as "RFL" in a booming voice, it will reset it's throwing arm. (Watch out, it slams down pretty hard, and can pinch!) 6. In a moment, the Bot's Helmet should light up. When it does, it means the data is flowing to and from the bot. 7. Drive it! *. A tip... There are extensions for the wheels to allow it to back up on carpets and rougher surfaces, like my back deck. Think of them as training wheels and put them on while your battery pack is charging. It will be easier to drive the bot. Fewer nasty falls when backing up on rough surfaces. See next video for driving with extensions... Author's Assigned Keywords: RFL Robots Robots Robot Basics ... 2370 Views I`m calling this robot basics, but I`m leaning to more like a minimum "robot." Introduce a couple motors, a switch, and some bumpers. Add some delays, etc by using a timer control. Thus it can crawl backwards for example, for 1/2 second then start going forward again. Then you can power on a right or left turn on going forward. If you put a listing and it leaves out some, then you have exceeded the limits for an input box and you will need to split... There`s a bug. If you use pre for format control, the pre shows in the listing for the project. For now, skip the insertion of the <pre>uses direct format</pre>. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Motor Control Robots Tricycle Robot Gets Around - Building Alternative Experiments: ... 2655 Views With a single motor and a single servo, you end up with an interesting configuration. Im playing around with an idea to create a ball-bot, if you will. The ball robot would be driven by a single drive wheel which is turnable. Thus, from inside a large ball, you could make a round ball of a robot. That idea intrigued me!!! Put a single drive motor on the end of a servo, then use that inside a ball. I couldnt resist playing with the idea. This is the result of the combination. Since a two-rear wheel stabilizes the single drive wheel we test the idea with a Tricycle robot! Author's Assigned Keywords: robotics Robots Robot Man: With Robot Demos ... 4595 Views Hello. This is WeRbots, with the robot videos, you know another robot Freak...
I built this website mainly to have a place where I and my friends, amateur and professional robot builders could show off our stuff. Though this isn`t exactly a step-by-step project you can build, it is fun because, for me at least, it is a way to record my robo-nutiness for all posterity. At least as long as there is a You Tube! This is a collection of the commercial robots I bought. Some I bought to learn, like the Avoider, others I bought to Mod, like RoboQuad, whatever the reason, these are some of the bots I bought trying to make my way in the world of DIY robots. Enjoy the Videos! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Man Robot Pets Operation of the Tri-Bot From Wowwee! ... 4396 Views This video describes the first experience operating the WowWee! Tri-Bot. From out of the box, how it works, how to use it. Of course the first, arguably the most important instruction is how to turn the robot volume down. This little red robot will drive you crazy as it rolls around your house. The usual WowWee robot, you can program movements and play 'em back. You can manually control the bot, it is really good at spinning in place, but it will move forward, back left and right. The most fun happens when you set the Tri Bot "free" to roam on it's own. Just hit the brain button and it moves around avoiding, and occasionally engaging obstacles. The downside, the tri drive falls over a lot when it engages a wall. The object detector is located high on the bot, so it runs into smaller things a lot, without even knowing about 'em. I'll let you judge how much fun you may have with the robot. I have my eye on the tri-bot's drive motors and those multi-directional wheels! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Robot Pets Build Your Own Track Drive Robot ... 6979 Views Describes how to "build one of these" yourself. Pretty much is a step-by-step guide to build your own track drive robot.
It is pretty simple and relatively cheap and actually kind of a fun way to become familiar with Robots and Robotics in general. It isn`t long after getting your first robot, you start to wish that little wheeled bot could climb over things in a relentless forward motion - - Like a Tank! Even though the old timers told me I didn`t want the hassles of a track-drive robot, I knew it wasn`t true. I wanted one! I wanted it simple and cheap and programmable for fun! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots track drive robot picAxe IR Detector Infrared Proximity Sensor Build a Robot In 5 Minutes ... 6149 Views SimpleBot the 5 Minutes to Build Robot. This is `the bot` for experimenters who are anxious to make their first robot and get it running. It`s held together with tape, so you can take it apart and experiment.
The example Simple Bot uses a couple of gearMotors with wheels, battery pack, etc.. One of any starting roboticist`s issues is making the robot base. In this case, the robot`s base is made out of the bodies of the gearMotors themselves. Simply arranging the gearMotors, then taping them together allows the experimental roboticist to take the starter bot apart and put it back together again. NOTE: Don`t Forget to put a picAxe 08m chip. In some cases, depending on where you get your picAxe motor controller chip, you will have to replace the 08 with 08m, or write your own code... If pin3 high there`s an object... and check before you make the motors run! Author's Assigned Keywords: Robots Quick Build Robot Remote controlled picaxe 08m robot ... 2306 Views Here is a robot project that uses the picaxe 08m with an infared module to control a small robot.
It uses off the shelf parts and a motor driver board. How To Make A Virtual Robot in FLASH ... 2669 Views I build robots. Little electromechanical machines that roll around the floor, seek light, avoid objects. Stuff like that. I also run a little kid`s website called cybercritters. So I decided the kids might like a robot to drive around. If they like it enough I can expand it to run in 2 1/2 D, or avoid objects, or make it into an avoidance race, or whatever strikes my fancy. I thought it would be fun to share how I put the little robot together using Flash. I use the old Macromedia Flash 8, I just can`t spring for the loot right now. So here`s the inside scoop on how I built a robot that is virtual, and you can play with it for free on the web. Here goes! Author's Assigned Keywords: FLASH Applications Robots Robot Action Script 2 Virtual Pet Robot How to build simple analog balancing robots ... 1954 Views One 555 timer and a couple of parts and you get a balancing robot base. I`d love to take credit for this project, but the credit for making a balancing robot goes to roboanalogtom (Tom Jenner) at You Tube. Frankly, even though I didn`t do the work, I knew there were others who are interested in such things. Like the upright RFL robot base project. The video tells it all and maybe when roboanalogtom checks his links and finds CwhatIcanDo users are viewing his video, maybe he`ll come here and share schematics or better still, show his latest version. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot Robot Motor Control Robots robotics BEAM Robots Droid From Motorola :: A Robot ? ... 2549 Views It`s been a while since I created a new project for Cwhat I can Do, so here goes. I obtained a Motorola Droid. (They finally got on Verizon - The only network that covers the Santa Cruz Mountains.) But I`m a robot guy? So what Have I got in Mind for a Phone that calls itself a Robot? Well, of course I`ve got an idea or two... I`ve been considering using ATX mini motherboards, web books, you name it. So along comes Droid. The more I read about it, the more it seems like this is something I could use to control a Robot. And maybe, just maybe, could become the central controller for my Dream Robot? High Hopes for this platform, and now that I have one, I am not disappointed. Author's Assigned Keywords: Robot robotics Android Droid Droid Smart Phone Robots Almost Anyone Can Afford ... 1062 Views Build yourself a fun obstacle avoiding robot that drives around all by itself, exploring new territories and managing to keep itself out of trouble. This project uses just the base in a very simple robot which runs around. It proves how nice the little Rumble Bots work as a Robot Base. You can make yours look prettier by incorporating the old head into the design. See http://www.dinofab.com/rumblebot.html for his Rumble Bot conversions. He`s done a few more than I have. Author's Assigned Keywords: How To Build Cheap Bots picAxe 08m Robot Rumble Bot Conversions Do it Yourself Robot in a Box ... 22 Views Low-Cost, super simple robot you can build yourself in a weekend. This robot was inspired by my original attempts to build a "dog" bot. What makes this neat is that it is simple to build AND it is expandable. Expanding is done by changing to a larger processor. I`m building another version of the little control board using the picAxe 18x just to give myself more program space to make the thing behave simply. Author's Assigned Keywords: Cheap Robot picAxe 14m picAxe 18x How To Build Cheap Bots Robots  It's Easy To: C - What - I - Can - Do • Sign up - Get ID and Password• Plan and Create a Project That Someone Might Enjoy and May Even Want to Build• Link to your creation on your favorite social networking site or blog.• Become famous! Because your projects get a lot of Hits!
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