Things of the Week: Botkits!

I felt compelled to make this week’s thing of the week (which is a bit late, yes) a tie between the two unquestionably awesome kit robots that have been built and shared on Thingiverse this week.  Each uses standard boards and gear motors to make sturdy, beautiful kit robots!

On the left we have a single-part chassis that accepts standard servos, battery pack and an arduino board– a lovely expression of the bare bones of robotics which could easily be extended in functionality by stacking a shield on the Arduino.  Neat!

On the right we have a really excellent line-follower that really shows off how beautiful and customized an object can be when digital fabrication is involved.  The creator has a lovely website with lots of beautiful documentation.  This design looks really devastatingly pro with that ribbon cable and obviously-custom plastic parts.  Awesome sauce.