Here he is, after three hours of soldering. His brain is the exact one from the "Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels" book. He's still a work in progress, and I still want to add some indicator LEDs and some solar cells so he can charge a battery. Also, I'm really new to this stuff, and I would appreciate any tips and/or constructive criticism and/or ideas. His body was from a kit called a brush bot that I modded a little with a dremel tool.
A good view of his brain:
An even better view of his brain:
reacts to light
Actuators / output devices: motor spinning unbalanced weight
He has a vibration motor for locomotion. He is meant to run after light, but since I don’t have a nine volt battery, I haven’t really gotten him up and running on anything except the breadboard.
the thing about the googly eyes is this: he was originally something called a brush bot. it’s a kit that lets you make an extremely simple robot that, at its heart, is a motor, switch and batteries. he vibrates on a brush, and as the bristles vibrate with the motor, he moves. He had googly eyes that came with him. Anyway, he was on my bench and I was looking for a motor for the bicore I was making. So some hot glue and solder later, and here he is now.
Well, my hope isn’t that he will necessarily follow the light, but that he will at least react to it. I don’t know what he’s going to do because I didn’t breadboard him with this specific vibration motor. I think it is a law of the universe in that nothing ever works right the first time.
