Comments on: Controllable bristlebot

By: zac

zac — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:24:32 +0000

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

thx

By: andre

andre — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:16:03 +0000

@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

By: k0ldBurn

k0ldBurn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:30:36 +0000

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.

By: therian

therian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:52:17 +0000

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

By: andre

andre — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:25:26 +0000

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

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:20:27 +0000

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.)

By: Orv

Orv — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:33:23 +0000

Is that why they died out?

By: obsoehollerith

obsoehollerith — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:26:58 +0000

all unicorns are gay.

By: bluehash

bluehash — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:39:41 +0000

nice one sprite!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:05:29 +0000

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 :)

By: McSquid

McSquid — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:45:23 +0000

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

By: PsyKotyk

PsyKotyk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:31:20 +0000

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

By: Jake of All Trades

Jake of All Trades — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:26:45 +0000

It’s so…cute! Nice project :)

By: dirk

dirk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:09:00 +0000

hah, these little things are cool

By: ACalcutt

ACalcutt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:27:49 +0000

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