amazon quadcopter
Posted inMisc

Amazon Quadcopter Delivery Plans

Hi all I have received a lot of questions from friends and family about the Amazon Prime Air delivery (if you have not heard about this check out the video at the bottom of this post). I know for some this is old news, but I am talking about it anyway. The basic idea is that you can order an…
husky robot
Posted inMisc Robots

Robot Bases (and other development platforms)

Hi all This is going to be a quick post. There are many cases where instead of building a full robot from scratch, you just want to buy a platform. These platforms can serve as the base of your robot that you build upon, or just as a test platform for developing/testing new software with. Here are some of the…
safety first
Posted inMisc Testing

Safe Robots

Hi all Remembering to be (and being) safe is an important aspect of building robots. If you are not do things safely, you might not get the chance to build anything else. I am not going to go into the standard stuff such as soldering, machining, and chemical safety since you can get that in other places. The thing I…
robot builders bonanza
Posted inMisc

Robot Books: The basics, the middle, and a lot of math.

Hi all Here are my recommended robotics books. I hope you enjoy. Please put your favorite robotics books in the comment section below. This first book Robot Builders Bonanza is a hobbyist level book but I still recommend it. This book introduces the basics of mechanical, electrical, microprocessors, and sensors that are used in modern robots. It is some good…
Art of Electronics book
Posted inElectrical & Electronics Misc

Electronics Engineering Books + FPGA Books

Hi all Here are some books that I like for electronics (including FPGA's). If you have any favorite electronics book please leave it in the comments below. The first one is the Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill. This is a very in-depth book that starts with the basics and ohms law and works its way up to analog…
journal
Posted inMisc Research

Conferences and Journals

This page is out of date. Click here for updated Conferences There are many conferences and journals serving the robotics community. Among other differences conference articles are often not reviewed by anyone other than the authors, while journal papers are usually peer-reviewed. Even if the journal is peer-reviewed there are many different levels of peer review and not all journals…