School Bus,

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This is my beetle-bot project.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/school-bus
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Good conversion job

While Chuck is a grumpy old man  ; - ) he does have a point. You could at least fill out the tags and info boxes for the post. The pictures do a good job of seeing how you re-engineered this toy but a caption or two would help. You seem to be handy on the hardware side, now you just need to exercise some brain muscles and get to grips with this programming. I noticed completely analog design to this one. Heheh. Don’t give up on your other project.

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Ok,

Ok, i will try to put more info in my new posts.

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ERV-1

I’m still working on it but i have to order some parts, and these’s things i had laying somewhere.

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How did you connect your

How did you connect your motors to the wheels? Directly? I have similiar motors and would really like to know if I could just gun it and put wheels directly on them for my brainless linefollower.

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reply

Makes me want to go to school back :smiley: I just finished my information technology management degree and I don’t ever want to see another university for at least 200 years. Nice tutorial though !

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I am a total and complete

I am a total and complete beginner at all robotics, so I was wondering what a beetle bot is and what it does?

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Where i got this,

I used this website : https://www.robotshop.com/gorobotics/articles/robots/how-to-build-a-simple-robot-beetle-robot.

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I saw a robot kind of like

I saw a robot kind of like this: its called a herbie.  The parts for it are dirt cheap (about five dollars tops), plus they are all available @ radioshack.