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Jev solving a micromouse maze

Jev, by TypeSafe AI, answers closed questions with a probability. I put it in charge of Ratatron, my micromouse, to see if it can solve a maze.

Ratatron

Ratatron is my micromouse: a small robot that has to find its way to the centre of an unknown maze, work out the fastest route and then run it as fast as it ...

EchoEar x Kame32

In this post I’m sharing a concept project that combines my Kame32 robot with Espressif’s EchoEar conversational device by redesigning the robot’s top cover ...

Kame32

I’m excited to introduce Kame32, a completely redesigned version of the original Minikame robot I created back in 2016. This new version features a much more...

Abrelatas

Abrelatas is my 1lb combat robot, built in 2023 for the robot combat tournament at OSHWDem. It’s a 4-wheel drive vertical spinner, mostly 3D printed.

Pandatron

Pandatron is a line-following robot I built back in 2017 as my first step into the world of line-follower competitions. Two years before, I teamed up with Ru...

Zowi

Zowi is a small, open-source, 3D-printable biped robot I created back in 2015 while working at BQ’s innovation lab. It was fully designed in FreeCAD, using c...

Maus

Maus is a five-degree-of-freedom biped robot I built as a test platform for my master’s thesis on oscillator-based locomotion for legged robots, at Universid...

Minikame

Minikame is a quadruped robot with 8 degrees of freedom that I designed in 2016 while working at the innovation lab of the now-defunct Spanish company BQ. At...

Micropanda

Micropanda is a microsumo robot I built in 2019: two robots inside a ring, and the first one to push the other out wins. In microsumo the robot must fit in a...

Predator

A humanoid prototype I built to experiment with unusual leg configurations, with knees driven by two servos in parallel.

Zowimanoids

Zowi with two arms and a head: a micro humanoid to learn how to move many servos at once. Step by step assembly guide.

Twimaro

Twimaro (Twin Manipulator Robots) is a pair of twin robotic arms: if you move one of them by hand, the other one copies the movement. I built it in 2015 as a...

Beerbot

Beerbot (Beer Extraction Experimental Robot) is a small mobile robot that finds a can, grabs it and brings it back to where it started, avoiding the obstacle...

Laser Tower

A 3D printed pan-tilt turret that tracks targets of different colours with a webcam and points a laser at them. A computer vision project from my master’s.

Erizos bailones

Erizos bailones (dancing hedgehogs) is a table with a matrix of 32 neodymium magnets that move up and down, each one driven by a servo. Around every magnet t...

Raider

Raider is a competition humanoid with 24 degrees of freedom. Its name stands for Robot Antropomórfico para la Investigación y Desarrollo en Entornos Reales. ...

Javier Isabel