Once solely the stuff of science fiction, a number of online communities and companies are now making it easier for you to build your own robot. The online community at Let’s Make Robots is one of the more vibrant communities dedicated solely to helping people build their own robots. A “Start Here” tutorial is designed to help you to build your own robot within “a couple of hours,” but warns readers that they should expect to “use a good weekend” to get optimum results.
“There are other ‘How to get started building robots’ out there,” LMR founder Frits Lyneborg writes at the top of the tutorial. “This one is focusing on getting you around everything extremely fast. You need no knowledge of anything. And you will learn everything well, the basics of everything ;)”
Besides the tutorial, the LMR website includes blogs, product reviews and forums all dedicated to helping you learn how to build your own robot. The site also has a section that allows builders to issue friendly challenges to one another as a way of helping individuals to advance their robot-making skills as well as build a sense of community among robot-building enthusiasts.
“The idea is that with challenges you can inspire people, like if you say to someone you are teaching; See, can you make this (knowing that if necessary you can make it yourself, and show how),” reads a statement on the Challenges page of the website.
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