Junkbot Competition Winners!
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
First Place: All the submissions to the junkbot competition were great, and we hope everyone had fun doing it! Our first place winner was Enigmatic Electronics with the Robot Grumpy Cat! We really loved this guy, and we’re likely to use it as inspiration in some RobotGeek projects. Watch the video, they put a lot of effort into it! They even did an unboxing video of the super mysterious robotics grab bag. It paid off doing it for the meme, so keep up the good work guys! Runner-up: Now we know we said there would be one winner, but we were torn because all of the submissions were so great. W ..read more
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Junkbot Competition Deadline Extension! (now October 26)
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
We’ve been selling so many of the Super Mysterious Robotics Grab Bags! With so many people just getting involved in the contest, we want to give you all an extra month to make your robots! The new deadline for the Junkbot Competition is October 26! All of the entry rules still apply. Winner takes home a $200 Trossen Robotics Gift Card and all the glory of having made a cute/funny/cool robot using a randomized selection of parts! Junkbot Competition: We wanted to do something fun with this, so we’re going to have a junkbot competition! Winner takes a $200 Trossen Robotics Gift Card, and all th ..read more
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Super Mysterious Robotics Grab Bag and Junkbot Competition!
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
The Super Mysterious Robotics Grab Bag is a way for us to clean house and say thank you to our customers. Sometimes we end up with a surplus of parts that we just don’t know what to do with, so now we’re giving it away on the cheap! The Super Mysterious Robotics Grab Bag always comes with a large workbench, duino mount, RobotGeek LED Driver, RobotGeek Rotation Knob, RobotGeek Pushbutton, RobotGeek Sensor Shield, and the hardware you’ll need to mount it. What else is in the box? Everything from that point is a mystery. You’ll get well over $150 (retail) worth of robot parts to kick your creati ..read more
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New Kits, Microcontrollers, and Sensors from DFRobot!
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
New in stock, we have Kits, Microcontrollers, and Sensors from DFRobot! Let’s take a quick look! The Turtle Mobile Platform is a low cost robotic chassis just waiting for you to add a microcontroller and sensors! If you’re looking for a kit that will guide you through the first steps of physical computing, the DFRobot Beginner Arduino Kit has you covered! We now carry two new microcontrollers, the Romeo V2 and the Bluno! The Romeo V2 has sensor pin breakouts onboard allowing you to easily add DFRobot and RobotGeek Sensors, as well as a motor driver built in! The Bluno works as ..read more
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Reactor Arm Smiley!
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
Jeff Owrey of IntraVisions programmed a Reactor Arm to paint a smiley! This is a fun little project that demonstrates just a fraction of what you can do with a robot arm! There are a few really awesome projects on IntraVisions.com that you should check out after the video, such as the DIY Weather Station, DIY Radiation Monitor, and a few Javascript games such as Conway’s Game of Life! We had fun poking around these projects, and we can’t wait to see what he comes up with next! http://intravisions.com/media/roboarmsmiley.m4v ..read more
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New RobotGeek I/O Boards and Kits!
Trossen Robotics Blog
by Wade
3y ago
We have 4 new RobotGeek I/O Boards, a new spin on an old knob, a bigger screen, and a cost effective kit for the classroom that you’ve just got to see! RobotGeek Temperature Sensor RobotGeek RCA Board RobotGeek IR Transmitter RobotGeek IR Receiver Want to make your project kick into gear when life turns up the heat? The RobotGeek Temperature Sensor can feel its way through! With the 3-pin Sensor Cable standard, you can easily connect this to your project and start reading the temperature! Use it to activate your air conditioner, control the temperature in a cold frame, log the temperat ..read more
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