With the delivery of the first assembled 8BitModules this week, it’s time to talk a little about the other robots I’m designing around the board.

Robot Arm

I still have a MeArm Classic I made on my laser cutter a while ago. This inspires me to build a 3D printed robot arm. To make it you need three servos, a hand full of skateboard bearings, a few M3 bolts, and an 8BitRobots module to control it all. I’ll document the project here https://hackaday.io/project/158798-3d-printed-robot-arm-8bitrobots

Sphere ROV

The Sphere ROV has been in development for some time, and this is the latest iteration of it. It’s been pretty difficult to build in a way I’m happy with, and I still have lots of problems to solve; but it merges my obsession with spherical robots and water. This iteration uses the 8BitRobots module (the others had custom hardware) and I’ll document it here https://hackaday.io/project/158799-sphere-rov-8bitrobots

NaBi the sideways walking robot

The NaBi design comes from UCLA and is a simple walking robot. Making robots walk is hard, but this design solves many of these problems by having the robot walk sideways. This version uses 3d prints, a few servos, some metal rods for the legs and the 8BitRobots module as the brain. For more information follow along here https://hackaday.io/project/158800-nabi-a-sideways-walking-robot-8bitrobots