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Robotics Videos

John BoardJohn Board Posts: 371
edited 2014-11-03 02:46 in General Discussion
G'day,

I've been asked to bring some of my robots along to a show at an exhibition about "What men do in their sheds". I'm setting up a few of my robots which I've made over the years, along with an interactive Lynxmotion APod.

I'm wanting to have a playlist of videos playing in the background about hobbyist robotics, etc for people to watch if they are interested. Does anyone have any suggestions of (short) videos that you think the general public could find interesting about robotics?

Thanks!

John

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2014-10-31 07:49
    There are many videos peppered throughout the robotics forum, also search Youtube and Let's Make Robots. Any of Boston Dynamics' scary big bots (Big Dog etc) will please and frighten at once. School robotics contests like US First are great videos. Good luck with your show.
  • Courtney JacobsCourtney Jacobs Posts: 903
    edited 2014-10-31 08:04
    John,

    You are welcome to play any of the Parallax Youtube videos as well.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/ParallaxInc
  • jdoleckijdolecki Posts: 726
    edited 2014-10-31 10:53
    Here my robot that I took to community college electronics class.

    It has and eddie control board, ping sensors, IR sensors and a computer with MSRS running. Xbox game controller and Kinect Vision.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73GCooj41Uc

    Thanks, john
  • RobotWorkshopRobotWorkshop Posts: 2,307
    edited 2014-10-31 12:03
    Do you want to show them some classic home and educational robots?

    Here are a few links that show one of the larger robots that I rebuilt. It was just an empty shell when I found it (an old Android Amusement DC-2 robot from 1981) but it is turning out pretty good. We had it over at a Cub Scout Pack meeting and the kids loved it....

    (The ticking sound is just the phone picking up the sonar pulses which you don't usually hear)

    Robert
  • John BoardJohn Board Posts: 371
    edited 2014-11-03 02:46
    G'day,

    Thanks all for the responses! I went out today to the show, and set up my exhibit. I'm in the process of getting it connected to the internet so I can work on it from home (the exhibit is 2 hours away).

    Thanks for the suggestions, and I had many laughs looking at the retro robot videos @RobotWorkshop!

    @jdolecki I recently ordered a Kinect, and haven't really had a chance to play around with it. I was just wondering how you implemented the kinect in your project? C# -> whatever language over sockets? Or did you use openkinect? Or something else entirely?

    Thanks again,

    John
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