Weird Robot News Articles:

• Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) – Robot that devours plants and dead stuff as fuel!

• Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie – A real life Bender is not too far off!

What if you could uninvent something??

• If you could go back in time and stop something before it was created, what would it be?

Cool Stuff:

• ED Corporation from Korea partnership supplies New Advanced Electronics Training Facility

How To Get FREE Electronic parts!

• Learn how to get your hands on free inexpensive parts at low to no cost.

Ocalon Electronics is now available on the go with Twitter! In case you don’t already know, Twitter is the hottest new way of spreading news straight from a source right to you!

Whether its your friends, family, or favorite electronics and robotics site – you can keep informed on your mobile phone or computer on the latest that’s going on. So stay informed and be kept up-to-date on what’s happening over here before everyone else!

You’ll know exactly what projects are currently ‘in the making’ and how far along the progress on each one is. With this, you’ll know what parts to pick up for the next exciting project we have in store for you all.

This hack originated from Randy Sargent’s original Herbie hack of an LM386 audio op amp. This little robot has two different types: the stock Herbie which just navigates towards or away from either light or dark spots (depending on how you orient the sensors).

In this project we’ll go through how to create the ‘stock’ Herbie so that you can get a rough understanding of what it is, how it works, and more importantly so that you can get this simplified version working first!

Now you can rest in peace that you’ll be able to get those parts you need for our amazing projects that are not only easy to complete but also incredibly versatile for many a situation. You should be able to find what you’re looking for and these kits cost less then going out and buying the parts individually from Radio Shack. So check it out

Tired of always being snuck up upon? Doing any stealth surveillance or reconnaissance? Or maybe you just need to set-up a fail-safe alarm for your stuff so your little brother doesn’t go into your room.
 

Well this little ingenuity will allow you to not only trip someone but also have it set off an alarm when tripped.  Its a fairly easy circuit to build and is incredibly straightforward. You shouldn’t have any problems with this circuit at all, but if you do we’re here to help.

Well its been a challenge but now our electronics store is up and running! So if you’re looking for some cool components to add a flash (literally) then look no further. We have a wide variety of parts that should suit your building tastes.

Not to mention our soon-to-be arriving project kits and starter kits as well as hilarious gadgets that are sure to inspire awe and wonder.

Whether its LEDs, ICs, DPDT Relays, Switches, Transistors, Potentiometers, a Breadboard, a Multimeter or whatnot you’ll find it. And if not, then let us know what you’re looking for so we can get it in stock for you and everyone else!

Here’s a question to make you think: If you were to go out and want to get a robot, what would you want it to be able to do? I would want my robot to have an interactive screen. It would have to have some sort of LCD display that could relay information to me, and I should be able to use it to navigate its menu or options.

Second, it should have some sort of method of ‘plugging in’ to a computer terminal somewhat like R2D2 can. I would want it to have an extendable USB jack. Preferably, it would have its cord built in, so that there would be no need to go in search of the cord. But it should also remain fairly unobtrusive (needs to be light-duty).
 

How about you? If you had a say into what would be built into your dream robot, what would you put into the design? Let your voice be heard at our forum!

In case you haven’t already heard, the 2009 Robogames will be taking place Fri-Sun, June 12-14th, 2009. This year’s competition will be held in Fort Mason, San Francisco, California.

A quite interesting new competition that is coming to, is called mech warfare. They are armed with airsoft weapon systems and higher end weapons including micro rockets, flame throwers and CO2 projectile weapon systems.

But don’t worry, these 1/24th scale robots aren’t large enough to go ‘terminator’ on us and take over the world. But they will help pioneer a new era of robotic competition where strategy, skill, and engineering play a major role in each participant’s success.