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If you are like me, you hate to sweep and are too poor to buy a “Roomba”. This BristleBot project by 11th grade programming wiz, Erin Kennedy, is a pretty simple way of getting some basic cleaning done and watching the bot scuttle around on the kitchen floor is pretty fun too.
Build a BristleBot to clean up your apartment
Posted by jonahbc | Saturday March 29th, 2008 10:36 AM
Categories: Robotics | 8 Comments
Is it me or is this thing about the size of a watch battery?
Go Erin! Awesome.
It’s going to take a lot of batteries to clean that floor. You’ll still have to sweep up the dust.
Simply awesome. I’m not sure if it can clean my kitchen floor, but my cats will surely love it
I wonder if bristle-bots like this could be enhanced with micro-controlled oscillation patterns (possibly needing additional motors as well) to facilitate RF/IR/bluetooth/fill-in-the-blank-communication remote steering and speed control. Or does a notion like that defeat the simple elegance of a vibro-bot?
Isn’t that a Dougall? From Neil A. Downie’s “Vacuum Bazookas, etc” book? Well done though, and looks like it really moves!
I like the groovy soundtrack that it makes with only the tiny battery and a motor…
Wow, this is so cool.
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