Build a BristleBot to clean up your apartment

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By jonahbc
Posted 2008/03/29 @ 10:36 am
Category Robotics

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.

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8 Responses to Build a BristleBot to clean up your apartment

Harish on March 29th, 2008 at 11:07 am said:

Is it me or is this thing about the size of a watch battery?

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PattiS on March 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am said:

Go Erin! Awesome.

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BigD145 on March 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm said:

It’s going to take a lot of batteries to clean that floor. You’ll still have to sweep up the dust.

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Anonymous on March 29th, 2008 at 5:33 pm said:

Simply awesome. I’m not sure if it can clean my kitchen floor, but my cats will surely love it

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Juan Garcia on March 29th, 2008 at 7:43 pm said:

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?

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Del on March 30th, 2008 at 5:31 pm said:

Isn’t that a Dougall? From Neil A. Downie’s “Vacuum Bazookas, etc” book? Well done though, and looks like it really moves!

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Anonymous on March 30th, 2008 at 8:57 pm said:

I like the groovy soundtrack that it makes with only the tiny battery and a motor…

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Paul on March 30th, 2008 at 9:51 pm said:

Wow, this is so cool.

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