TurtleBot Builds on Make: Projects

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By Goli Mohammadi
Posted 2011/09/14 @ 6:00 pm
Category General

In the Robot Roundup section of MAKE Volume 27, we featured the TurtleBot hobby platform as a great reasonably priced open source robotics kit. (Check out our review on page 77.) Now, the fine folks at TurtleBot are sharing project builds on our DIY wiki, Make: Projects. To date, there are eight TurtleBot projects, and there’s now a TurtleBot topic page nested under the Robotics category on the site.

Here’s a short video introducing TurtleBot:

And here are the tutorials available so far:
Add a Demo Button to Your TurtleBot
Wiring and Attaching an Arm to Your TurtleBot
Create Cables for the TurtleBot Power Board
Build a Pan and Tilt Head for your TurtleBot
Build an Arm for Your TurtleBot
Build Your Own TurtleBot: 2″ Standoff
Build Your Own TurtleBot: Plates
Build Your Own TurtleBot: Power and Sensor Board

Stay tuned for more!

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2 Responses to TurtleBot Builds on Make: Projects

Anonymous on September 15th, 2011 at 3:23 am said:

Remember there was that program for the Apple][ where you typed in the coordinates to move the “turtle” around on the screen?

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Ryan on July 1st, 2012 at 6:13 pm said:

I do remember that. I think the big one was called Logo I believe.

If anyone is interested in a tutorial about how to program the roomba via its SCI interface, there is a good one here:

http://www.robotappstore.com/Knowledge-Base/3-Serial-Port-Baud-Rate-Configuration/17.html

Hope this helps someone!

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