Best Magazine

[sbsshadow]

Whats the best magazine to buy here in the uk about robotics ?

I have seen a couple on the web, but am going to WH Smith today.

Would it be ROBOT ? or SERVO ?

Or any others ...

Thanks

Steve

[Orac]

I get both of them, they are both good in different ways.

Robot is more of a general round-up of the worlds hobby robotics with a few how-to articles.

Servo is more for the electronics hardware enthusiast and has detailed schematics and component reviews, etc.

[sbsshadow]

Wicked, thanks for the quick response ....

Im not a million miles away from you actually, I just ordered the ISOBOT, just wondered if you are going to get one ?

Or what sort of things you are into as im thinking of getting the KHR-2HV next ....

Thanks

Steve

[Orac]

Hi,

I tinker with my Manoi and also am working on a PC based rover with a camera.

The Isobot never really appealed to me, I have seen it in action and its a fun chap. There are some good videos on YouTube showing what it's capable of, but I needed something that was a bit more hackable.

Pete

[sbsshadow]

And would you recommend the KHR-2HV as a next bot for me ?

Thanks

Steve

[Robo1]

HI sbsshadow

As your in the UK why not come down to the UK robo-one event at the end of the month. I will be bring down my KHR-2 and there will be every kit there for you to look at and talk to the owns. It's a really good day out and will differently make you want to buy a bot and compete. Have a llok in the general section or look at this link.

Bren

[sbsshadow]

WOW, it looks great , do you normally get a lot of people there ?

Thanks

Steve

[StuartL]

WOW, it looks great , do you normally get a lot of people there ?

Thanks

Steve

"Normally" is a misleading word

I believe last year was the first year and we had probably half a dozen robots. This year looks enormous and some of us "veterans" (*smirk*) should have made some improvements.

Last year my bot could stand. Literally that's all it could do. A year later it can now, er, not even do that.

I'm looking forward to progress from the likes of BillB, see how things are doing...

[sbsshadow]

isnt enormous a misleading word

How many bots do you think will be there this year ?

Thanks mate

Steve

[NovaOne]

How many bots do you think will be there this year ?

Hundreds

(Actually WYSIWYG)

[sbsshadow]

Cool.

[BillB]

sbsshadow - take a look at this video. It was taken in April when a few the UK Robosavvy members of us met up in Bicester for some Robofootball.
In it you can see a Manoi (all Black), several Robonovas (copper colour), half a Bioloid (legs only) a Kondo (can't remember what model) and a i-Sobot.

The video will give you a good feel of the relative sizes of the robots and an idea of how fast they move. The i-Sobot was veritably dwarfed and out run by all the other robots. The i-Sobot is probably a third of the size of the others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9oZ0ZHHM7E

Nothing against the i-Sobot, but I was surprised at how small and compact it is compared to the other bipeds.

[rickyparkar]

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