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Hackaday Prize Semifinalist: Walking Robots From Scratch

The usual way robotics is taught – and nearly everything, for that matter – is simple. A teacher gets a pre-built module or kit, teaches the students how to use the kit, and class is adjourned. There are significant and obvious drawbacks to this. [Kevin Harrington]’s entry for the Hackaday Prize turns that pedagogy on its head. It’s a robotics development platform that encourages everyone to create their own robots from scratch, starting with the question, ‘how many legs do you want your robot to have’. Bowler Studio uses OpenCV for image processing, a kinematics engine, a JCSG-based CAD and …read more #2015HackadayPrize, #Dyio, #HackadayPrize, #Hexapod, #Robot, #TheHackadayPrize