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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 Jonah Brucker-Cohen |
Mar 29, 2008 10:34 AM
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Is it me or is this thing about the size of a watch battery?
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Go Erin! Awesome. :)
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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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Simply awesome. I'm not sure if it can clean my kitchen floor, but my cats will surely love it :)
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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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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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I like the groovy soundtrack that it makes with only the tiny battery and a motor...
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Wow, this is so cool.
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