tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:/blog/tag/robot local-guru.net 2011-10-28T04:51:02+02:00 GuruBlog engine tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/495 2011-10-28T04:51:02+02:00 2011-10-28T04:51:02+02:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>ROBOT!!!! (did I already mention that I like robots?)</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/gallery/marker/111028_robot.jpg" alt="robot" /></p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/288 2010-06-19T09:55:00+02:00 2010-06-19T09:55:00+02:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>Today's inspirational theme for <a href="http://www.30daysofcreativity">30daysofcreativity</a> is robots. So I made a new virtual version of my <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2008/03/15/download-bots">downloadbot</a> - this time in povray</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/povray_robot.png" alt="povray_bot" /></p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/230 2010-02-08T02:36:00+01:00 2010-02-08T02:36:00+01:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>I designed and printed a robo necklace</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/things/robo_necklace.jpg" alt="robo" /></p> <p>if you want to print one yourself, <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/things/robo.stl">download the stl file</a> or fetch the <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/things/robo.scad">openscad</a> and the <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/things/robo.dxf">dxf</a> file. then stick on some moving eyes</p> <p>it's licenced under a creative commons share alike licence</p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/199 2009-10-20T06:14:00+02:00 2009-10-20T06:14:00+02:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <pre> [00] /|__|\ '' </pre> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/125 2009-02-10T18:26:00+01:00 2009-02-10T18:26:00+01:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>a while ago i <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2008/03/15/download-bots">posted images of my download-bots</a>. this december my parents used them as their <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2008/12/28/download-bots-xmas-edition">xmas-tree decoration</a>.</p> <p>now i have written some instruction to enable my dear reader to build his own download-bot - prefereably while downloading a big file.</p> <p>i use 2 strip of wood one 2cm x 4cm, and the second one 1cm x 0.5cm</p> <ul> <li>cut a 2 cm long block from the bigger strip for the head</li> <li>cut a 4.5cm long pice from the bigger strip for the body</li> <li>cut 4 2.5cm long pices from the smaller strip for arms and feet</li> <li>cut a 1 cm long pice from the smaller pice for the nec</li> <li>now glue the pices together following the instruction graphic bellow.</li> <li>put 2 pins into the head as antennas</li> <li>and finally draw a funny face on the head block</li> </ul> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/bot_instruction1.png" alt="instruction1" /></p> <p>é voilà - a download-bot!</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/bot_instruction2.png" alt="instruction2" /></p> <p>i really would like to see a comment if you have build your own bot</p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/100 2008-12-28T15:44:00+01:00 2008-12-28T15:44:00+01:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>a while ago i made some <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/articles/2008/03/15/download-bots">wooden bots</a> while waiting for a download. My family really liked them - so they got our xmas-tree decoration this year :-)</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/xmas_bots1.jpg" alt="xmasbots" /></p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/78 2008-10-11T09:51:00+02:00 2008-10-11T09:51:00+02:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <pre> () () \ / __\___________/__ / \ / ___ ___ \ | / \ / \ | | | H || H | | | \___/ \___/ | | | | \ / | | \___________/ | \ / \_________________/ _________|__|_______ _| |_ / | | \ / | O O O | \ | | | | | | O O O | | | | | | / | | \ | /| |\ | \| | | |/ |____________________| | | | | |__| |__| / __ \ / __ \ OO OO OO OO </pre> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/72 2008-10-01T20:09:00+02:00 2008-10-01T20:09:00+02:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p>Some while ago i made <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/articles/2008/03/15/download-bots">downloadbots</a> from a block of wood while waiting for a longer download.</p> <p>i wanted to test the "noLoop()" function from processing, so i did a <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/processing/downloadbot">digital version</a> of them</p> tag:www.local-guru.net,2005:Article/30 2008-03-15T17:13:00+01:00 2008-03-15T17:13:00+01:00 Nikolaus Gradwohl <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: <em>I posted <a href="http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2009/02/10/how-to-build-a-download-bot">some building instructions</a> for Download-Bots</em></p> <p>i just started a lengthy download and had to kill some time so i started to build some toy-robots for my kids.</p> <p>it took me aproxymatly 90 mb to build 2 robots</p> <p>so while downloading my next ubuntu cd 1 could build 12 of them and while downloading the iphone sdk i could make another 48! An army of little robots! World donimation! muaaahahaha!</p> <p><img src="http://www.local-guru.net/img/guru/downloadbots.jpg" title="bots" alt="bots" /></p>