After weeks of waiting my book has finally arrived from Amazon!

This marks the first of what will be many Amazon purchases as well as the start of my new project to build a robot by the end of the year. I decided that I couldn’t go on about robotic world domination and everything all the time if I wasn’t prepared to get my hands dirty and actually build one myself.

I’ll give you guys some more details about the whole thing soon (someday) but it is basically going to detail how to build a basic robot (a simple beer-o-tron should suffice) from start to finish in 12(0000) easy steps.

As a bonus I found out today that my workplace is heavily involved with the sort of microcontrollers that I will be using so I will have a number of guru brains to pick if I get stuck. Should be an adventure!

Stay tuned for more info!

Found this pic on the website for the latest RoboOne competition.

RoboOne is a totally awesome bipedal robot fighting competition that takes place annually in Japan. Oh yeah, i did say bipedal? Yeah the Japanese seem to think it is perfectly normal to just whip up a 2 legged droid with more moves than Ryu in their shed (Er, i mean cupboard probably). Everyone else is happy if they get their box on wheels rolling across the floor without exploding!

I bet some contestants are gonna be hella pissed when they find out that they can’t enter the 50ft UltraAngry MegaDeath RoboSquid 5000 they just spent the last year making!

Do you like robots? More importantly, do you like FIGHTING ROBOTS??

I’m not talking about any of those lame-o-tronic RobotWars / BattleBot remote control cars with blades here. I’m talking about Japanese fighting robots with swords and ten hit combos! I’m talking about walking tyranosaurus droids capable of self-righting once they have taken a hit (Think about it… how the hell would a T-Rex self-right?). I’m talking about fighting machines the size of small dogs with more moves than a character from Streetfighter Turbo Pro Plus Extreme Alpha Code Seven Extra Edition 3D!!!

That’s right ma’ nizzo’s and nizzo’rettes! I’m talking about the annual robo-fest that is RoboOne!

Here is a link to PC Watch that has some coverage of this years event:

PC World ROBO-ONE coverage (translated to english)

Check out these videos!

Dino and some other bot thing

Chroino walking

Crazy monkey robot things

Acrobatics

A big red guy showing off

More monkeybots

Chroino with a ball

Chroino getting up

Chroino doin’ stuff

I told you robots would soon rule this pathetic dirt ball you we call Earth! I told you but did you listen? Now bow before your mighty robot masters!! Shamon!