Girl Genius Dingbot Robot Part One
We decided to finally make an attempt to build a Dingbot robot based on the girl genius web comics. Please ...
Number 10 Gets A Screen
We have started upgrading all our robot to run the new RobotFreedom.AI framework. For Number Ten, the main missing piece ...
Updates to RobotFreedom.AI
Since our last update at Maker Faire, we've made significant improvements to our robot lineup, focusing on increasing autonomy, human ...
Arduino Robotic Controller Software Update
The RobotFreedom robots are controlled by two code bases. The first runs on a RaspberryPi and is written in Python ...
Number Nine is Rewired
We are learning weight is everything when it comes to good performance from our robots. One of our best jumpers, ...
Gunnerkrigg Court S13
When people visit our workshop, the first thing they would see is a big box of parts labeled S13. The ...
Intro to Our Workshop!
In this video Ted from the HipMonster's team shows our workshop and describes how we train our robots. We have ...
Fully Autonomous Robots
This video is the first time we were able to record two of our robots talking autonomously. While we were ...
Getting Started with Raspberry PI
Originally, we set up this site to focus on woodcrafting and painting but as our interests grew, we have increasingly ...
Number One On Its Own
Number One looks very simple, it's just a burnt out hair drier with wheels. As out first design we opted ...
Wiring of Number Two and Three
The HipMonster's sister team decided to push our robotics to the next level. They were dissatisfied with remote controlled robots ...
Number Three’s Controller
This post is an old one we forgot to publish a while back. Currently, Number Three is controlled by a ...
First Screen Test for Robot Freedom
Here is a preview of HipMonsters.com's next project, Robot Freedom. No robots were destroyed making this, but Number Three had ...
Making of Number Six and Number Seven
After finishing Number three, we wanted to make smaller and lighter walking robots. Leveraging what we had learned from building ...
Upgrades to Number Three
Since we discovered how to make Number Five move, we decided to upgrade Number Three. We tried to preserve as ...
The Making of Number Five
Inspired by the Boston Dynamics robot videos, steampunk art, and Girl Genius, the HipMonster team set out to make their ...
The Making of Number Three
We saw the need for a new robot for halloween, so we made one. This is our steampunk squirrel powered ...