http://robochick.co.uk Rampant Robotic Rumpus Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:11:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm still really busy with Brighton Robotics. It's great to create something so many people find useful and interesting and the urge is to spend all my time adding to it & improving it.  There is something to be said in perhaps spending the next six months concentrating solely on ... http://robochick.co.uk/2009/03/30/making-things-talk-arduino-fun/ It's  been a while since I blogged, I know.  But this time I have a good excuse.  Seriously.  It's a very, very good excuse.  You see, I've started a Social Network and Community for Robotics - Brighton Robotics - and it's somewhat swallowed all my spare time. I did this for ... http://robochick.co.uk/2009/03/02/brighton-robotics-group/ I bought the Turbot from Solarbotics as I wanted to start looking at bots with alternative methods of locomotion to wheels.  My particular interest in robotics is walking or legged robots and so I wanted to start with a simple non-wheel based robot that was about my current skill level ... http://robochick.co.uk/2009/01/04/the-turbot-tumbler/ In early November I got an amazing opportunity to go and visit the labs at the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR) at Sussex University.  Ian is friends with Linc Smith, one of the research fellows there, and he extended me an invite to go along and have a ... http://robochick.co.uk/2008/12/19/ccnr-trip/ Recently, after being an active member of the Brighton Girl Geeks Group since early 2007, and having seen the group fade away as the organizing members became too busy to continue, I have teamed up with Rosie Sherry and Val Cartei and resurrected the group.  I gained an awful lot ... http://robochick.co.uk/2008/12/19/robochick-presents/ I was asked by Ian to give a 10 minute demo of my sumobots at the £5 App Xmas special.  It was a really good night with a games theme, with talks from Aleks Krotski on her new, collaboratively built, text adventure game Spaceships!, facial recognition eye pong from CogApp, ... http://robochick.co.uk/2008/12/19/5-app-xmas-special/ Turns out that blogging is quite hard.  I'd been quite convinced when I started this venture that I'd blog about every robot I built and then occasionally in between time, whenever I had interesting thought.  Apparently that's not the case.  Since July, I have quite successfully built a further four ... http://robochick.co.uk/2008/12/18/5/ I built my first robot yesterday.  It took 3 hours, caused my RSI to flare up again and made my boyfriend think I was mad as I talked to myself and swore at the soldering iron throughout the whole experience.  But at the end of it I had built a ... http://robochick.co.uk/2008/07/27/entering-a-brave-new-world/