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A re-purposed Shark hand held sweeper. The first question I usually get (particularly from women) when I talk about robots is "Can it sweep my floors?". So here it is. I bought the hand held sweeper at a Goodwill store for a few bucks, added continuous rotation servos for drive motors, a homemade Arduino controller (ATmega8) and a sonar and bump sensors for obstacle avoidance. The code uses a subsumption architecture (okay, behavior based if you want to use the current lingo). It does a surprisingly ...
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