Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Got Robots? Marauder Robot and Interactive LED Tentacle
Home: California, United States
Marauder is a giant walking, skating, dancing hexapod robot lit with over 700 RGB LEDs for a spectacular kinetic light show. The robot is over 6' long, standing 4.5' high and loves dancing with kids. The addition of passive wheels at the end of the legs allows for skating at a fast walking pace so the robot will be roaming the Faire far and wide, if not in the dark room. Watch out! Riding along with Marauder is Blader, a tiny version of the bigger robot! New this year is the Tripod Tentacle interactive art project. Come find it in the dark room and drive it around with a PS4 controller... The Tentacle is a 2-stage prototype of the planned 4-stage robotically driven LED lit tentacle and is a lot of fun to play with, albeit just a little creepy ;)
http://www.gotrobots.com/
Maker
Nick Donaldson
Nick has been building robots for over 25 years, specializing in walking robots. He started buidling robots as a hobby but was recruited by a robotics startup and has been a professional roboticist for 20 years. Originally from England, he now lives in Marin with an ever increasing menagerie of robots.
http://www.gotrobots.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
I have always been fascinated with insects and started building insect robots over 25 years ago. I started with Lego Mindstorms and then built a series of aluminium bots culminating with the giant skating robot Marauder.
