Build a BristleBot to clean up your apartment


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.

Bristlebot @ RobotGrrl

Posted by Jonah Brucker-Cohen | Mar 29, 2008 10:34 AM
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Posted by: Harish on March 29, 2008 at 11:07 AM

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


Posted by: PattiS on March 29, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Go Erin! Awesome. :)


Posted by: BigD145 on March 29, 2008 at 12:54 PM

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


Posted by: on March 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM

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


Posted by: Juan Garcia on March 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM

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?


Posted by: Del on March 30, 2008 at 5:31 PM

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


Posted by: on March 30, 2008 at 8:57 PM

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


Posted by: Paul on March 30, 2008 at 9:51 PM

Great

Wow, this is so cool.


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