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This weekend, make Mousey The Junkbot, a cute little light sensing robot that will skitter across your floors like a real mouse! This project was in Make: Volume 2 and was conceived and written by Gareth Branwyn of streettech.com.

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Mousey is a mouse made of scavenged materials. Above is a common LM 386 Op Amp which is the chip that balances the input from the IR emitters to make the robot light seeking. If you're not a scavenger you can also get the parts from solarbotics.com.

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Posted by: Enk1du on June 1, 2007 at 4:39 PM

This is almost exactly what we did in my ECE 112 class at Oregon State University. The program is called Tekbots, check it out: http://www.tekbots.org/

Posted by: Hassan M. Maher on December 20, 2007 at 10:16 PM

I just started reading the PDF , you realy did a great job to make it easy reading , understanding , thanks you very much

Posted by: stephen on March 24, 2008 at 3:19 PM

Hey Bre,
i'm sortof noobish with this kind of stuff, but i was wondering if i could use a dual op amp?

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