sick! that looks like a really fun project.

Posted at 3:04 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by landon

This looks aweeeeeees000mmm3333

excuse the 1337

Posted at 3:43 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by -.-

That is super cool. i just love sprite_tm’s mods, a true hacker, keep up the good work.

Anyhow great source for all the stuff required for this project would be a cheap chinese ir heli (15$) :) and, you could make it controllable. (LiPo, charger 3 motors IR link :) )

Posted at 3:48 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by jelengar

nice. much cooler than the project it is based on. I wonder what it would take to remotely control it.

Posted at 4:27 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by ACalcutt

hah, these little things are cool

Posted at 8:09 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by dirk

It’s so…cute! Nice project :)

Posted at 8:26 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by Jake of All Trades

Your floor will be really clean inside that bubble you drew on it with permanent marker. lolz

Posted at 5:31 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by PsyKotyk

kinda wanna make an outer shell for this that looks like a scrubbing bubble. not gonna lie.

Posted at 5:45 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by McSquid

Looks like an cool project ! i actually made like 20 off these bristle bots a couple weeks ago with my scouting group (i am an scout leader for kids from 7-11)
I used dish washing brushes tho, because the motors i ordered where to powerful for an normal tooth brush.
Those bristle bots are realy cool toys, i might make an radio controlled one, when i have the time :)

Posted at 6:05 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by Dennis

nice one sprite!

Posted at 6:39 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by bluehash

all unicorns are gay.

Posted at 9:26 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by obsoehollerith

Is that why they died out?

Posted at 9:33 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by Orv

Holy crap, he turned bristlebots into -real- bots!
That’s incredibly cool!

(unicorns stopped existing when the ambient levels of mana reached a point too low to support them.)

Posted at 11:20 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

two words. dead mobiles. Nice little disk motors in Samsungs and many others, you can even take them off the dead screen assemblies (ask your local phone shop really nicely and offer them a few $)

Interestingly, its possible to drive these from a single PIC output at 3V, just add a parallel tantalum capacitor to limit surges.

-A

Posted at 11:25 am on Jun 17th, 2009 by andre

use larger motor, larger brushes and you get a floor cleaner

Posted at 1:52 pm on Jun 17th, 2009 by therian

It just so happens that I have a fair sized motor and broom. I might have to scale this thing up.

@andre- go to http://www.stootsi.com/store/cat.aspx?cat=101010&pg=1. Cheap damaged or repackaged cell phones, cameras, ipods, and other stuff. I got a couple older blackberries there for $10 a piece.

Posted at 8:30 pm on Jun 17th, 2009 by k0ldBurn

@k0ldburn, thanks for the heads up. I am currently experimenting with HP printer sensors as a primitive yet effective floor sensor (the trick is to add an additional slit filter across the sensor axis to detect movement)

seems that the most effective sensor is from an HP “mini” photo printer with the visible light emitter, can easily be used and the outputs are 5V logic.

-A

Posted at 11:16 pm on Jun 19th, 2009 by andre

coool !!!can you make a tutorial to show our how you make it on youtube????

thx

Posted at 9:24 am on Jul 28th, 2009 by zac