bristlebot

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I am working on what is probably the easiest robot in the world, and i almost have it done. this took longer than expected because i added a switch to it.i cant get an image just yet, because it fell off of my bookshelf. srry

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/bristlebot
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hahaha
bristlebots are amazing!! I have made about 5 myself!! have fun with yours

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I’ve been collecting old

I’ve been collecting old cellphones to pillage vibration motors from in hopes of building a bristlebot army!

Would love to see pics of yours :wink:

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I made seven so far, and I

I made seven so far, and I have a video somewhere on my computer of all 7 in an enclosed wooden "arena" and me turning them all on at once, it looks pretty cool.

One two of them I added an OpAmp and 1 bumper switch so that when it touches something it completely stops

 

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I love making these :slight_smile:

these are the most fun to make when you dont have any money :slight_smile:

I ran out of pager motors so I just used a zip tie as the counter wieght it works great :slight_smile:

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~Matt

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oops
I forgot to mrntion that most of mine are made using sweeping brushes and ‘normal’ motors with a wheel with a weight added to one side. they are usually cheaper than toothbrushes with pager motors, are easier to modify and less fiddly to work with.

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Hey mattmitch why are you using such a large chip?
if everyone were worms, try to be a glow worm

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the large chip…
I salvaged it from a really old computer and thought it would look cool as a base (it doesn’t do anything it just looks cool :)~Matt

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where did you get that battery housing?
where did you get that battery housing?

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battery housing

I salvaged it from an old motherboard, it was the system battery.

~Matt