Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Fabrication & Integration/Test

The Photo Gallery
Max's Little Robot Shop hosts a significant volume of work. When totaled the photos, CAD drawings, renderings, animations, schematics and videos number above ten thousand. The approximately two hundred photos represented in this gallery attempt to highlight many of the projects covered in the larger body of work and offer up a feel for what one may stumble upon 'in process' on any given day in the studio.

The works depicted on this page are, with minor exception, 100% originals constructs of Max's Little Robot Shop. There is a photo of a group robot project from college, and a small number of the massive quantities of parts have been fabricated by friends. (Thank you Jay and Rob.) The remaining work (nearly everything here) is original in concept, design, fabrication, programming, integration and test.

-Enjoy, Kenneth

Photo by: Rik Lambey Photo by: Hong Ngo My friends Jay and Rob fabricated many of the parts in this photo. My friend Jay fabricated several of the pieces in this assembly. photo by: Rik Lambey


Photo by: Ron Grant




Acrylic fabrication by Jay Barratt. I made most of the original parts and my good friend Jay stepped in and made the parts for coppies 2~4 on many of these. Photo by: Rik Lambey
a work in progress Oil dampened robot shock mounts.

Articulation example Prototype body used extensivly in early testing
Mid-Build progress update

WSU Robotics Group Project - Left to right: Rik Lambey, James Boer, Josh Meyers, Kenneth Maxon and Mike Vinjay

Electronics lab space in the Studio

Driving Electronics
The original boards were laid out by Bill Bailey from a Circuit Cellar article with filter input from me. Hong Ngo did this one for me. Thanks man! :) Photo by: Skip Feher Photo by: Rik Lambey

satellite tracking display on robot

Mechanical Fabrication
Photo by: Rik Lambey Photo by: Rik Lambey, My friend Rob helped out with some of the plates and blocks in this photo. My friend Jay helped me out substantially with this tank.

And just a few of the many thousands of mechanical parts
My friend Jay machined this set for me, Photo taken by: Jay Barratt.

...Max, Max & Max, the author w/brother & sister...
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If this page has sufficently whetted your appetite and enticed you to see more of the technologies behind the projects at Max's Little Robot Shop, follow the links below to read about many of these projects in detail.


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