February 16, 2004
February 2004: This is a reproduction of the Armored Personnel Unit (A.P.U.), the notorious Zion Gatekeeper robot from the Matrix movies. It is a biped that […]
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April 16, 2004
April 2004: I developed a simple yet effective motor multiplexer for RCX, to raise the number of motors it can drive from 3 to 6. It’s really […]
April 16, 2004
June 4, 2004
July 17, 2004
August 1, 2004
August 2004: After many trials, here’s a smooth weight shifting biped walker, powered with a single motor. The legs mechanism let it swing side to side while walking. […]
October 5, 2004
October 2004: Compact, smooth, and powered by only two motors, this little biped robot uses a standard Lego Light Sensor as proximity sensor, using signals emitted […]
December 17, 2004
December 2004: This is a walker biped, shaped as the famous chicken walker of the Star Wars movies, the All Terrain – Scout Transport (AT-ST). It can […]
March 17, 2005
March 2005: This little cute LEGO replica of Johnny 5 robot has working treads, poseable head, neck, eyebrows, hands and laser gun. It’s built from a single LEGO […]
September 1, 2005
September 16, 2005
I developed Johnny 5 from summer 2004 to fall 2005. It features: Tread differential drive Rotating head Raising torso Moving laser Grabbing and lifting hands, driven […]
October 15, 2005
This small LEGO MINDSTORMS RCX hexapod robot can walk and turn in place. It has three motors: Two motors move external legs forward and backward. A […]
October 16, 2005
Here’s another biped robot, in the shape of a standing owl. I used only RIS 2.0 parts, plus a rotation sensor. This is a weight-shifting biped walker. It uses 2 […]
October 17, 2005
October 2005: This RCX walker is semi-passive, that means that while the motor shift the weight of the RCX, the legs are not actuated (they are […]
April 17, 2006
April 2006: This robotic pet features an autonomous behavior modelled using a state machine. It walks around, and when it’s scared by someone approaching or by […]
May 17, 2006
The Mine Sweeper robot scans for black bricks on flat light surfaces, collects and stores them in its large compartment. This robot is described in my book […]
July 1, 2006
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September 26, 2008
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April 26, 2010
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September 26, 2010
September 26, 2010
During 2010, Mario Ferrari and I joined the efforts to make a fully autonomous soccer game system using MINDSTORMS NXT. Here’s some picture from the making of […]
June 1, 2011
December 2, 2011
February 10, 2012
February 17, 2012
February 2012: The Tripod is built after the alien invaders of the War of the Worlds movie. Its unique way of walking allows this monster to […]
March 2, 2013
September 2, 2013
I am developing a new exoskeleton to control the upper limbs of Cyclops mk 3. This time, I’m using my dear old wooden puppet Molla as a […]
September 3, 2013
August 2010: This is my new touch screen Arduino-based Ball and Plate system, the evolution of my old system shown here. The controller used here is […]
September 13, 2013
January 2008: This software was written in C++ as a preliminary study for the final project of Real Time System course at the University. The definitive simulator was then […]
September 13, 2013
A Ball and Plate system is a device that attempts to balance a ball on a plate. It is a well-known feedback control exercise for engineering students, […]
September 16, 2013
September 17, 2013
September 17, 2013
September 17, 2013
This is a LEGO AT-ST walker (All Terrain Scout Transport) from the Star Wars saga. It walks and turns using just two motors. This LEGO MINDSTORMS biped […]
September 17, 2013
September 17, 2013
September 18, 2013
First trip: Luxembourg My LEGO Rubik’s cube solver (result of the LEGO Rubik Utopia project) started travelling on 22 September 2007, to be shown at the […]
September 23, 2013
Cyclops mark 3 is a complete redesign of my previous LEGO mecha. I developed a new two-motor walking core that I am reusing in my latest […]
September 30, 2013
October 7, 2013
October 8, 2013
Ever wondered what’s inside a LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Medium Motor? Look here then, and avoid bothering to open your own motor. In fact, it could be […]
December 22, 2013
December 2013: After having designed this creepy animatronic head using the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 core set 45544, I adapted it to be built also with […]
January 29, 2014
February 19, 2014
Robot LEGO in TV A little premise for my followers: I wrote this article in two languages (Italian first) because this time I appeared on Italian […]
May 21, 2014
June 13, 2014
June 26, 2014
June 26, 2014
At some LEGO event and TV interview, I was wearing my EV3L hoodie, and many people liked it a lot. I also made some really cool t-shirts with Cyclops printed […]
June 26, 2014
August 28, 2014
October 8, 2014
October 16, 2014
October 28, 2014
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