Weekend Project: Herbie The Mousebot


Herbie the Mousebot is a very quick, easy-to-build, light-chasing robot kit, perfect for beginners. This little robot is so quick, you have to run to keep up with him.

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Posted by KipKay | Jun 13, 2008 07:00 AM
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Posted by: davis on June 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM

Mousey

Bre already did this using mousey the junkbot. The schematic is the same for both that and this.


Posted by: jkiniston on June 13, 2008 at 11:01 AM

Welcome back Kip, Nice build overview.


Posted by: Gareth Branwyn on June 13, 2008 at 11:47 AM

This is actually an IMPROVED Herbie circuit (over the one I used for Mousey) with two touch sensors on the front, one touch-tail sensor (to prevent it from going under couches and other furniture) and an IR LED tail light so that, if you have two Herbies, one can chase the other.

And this bot is SO much easier to build, it's a much better project for a beginner.

One of these days, I'll get around to doing a Mousey update with similar functionality...


Posted by: Robert on June 13, 2008 at 2:26 PM

New Schematic?

If the circuit is improved, how do you get the new schematic if you're not Subscribed to the podcast in iTunes?


Posted by: Gareth Branwyn on June 13, 2008 at 2:42 PM

The circuit that Herbie the Mousebot uses is available in the PDF for the Herbie kit, on the Solarbotics site, here:

http://www.solarbotics.com/products/k_hm/resources/


Posted by: ano on June 15, 2008 at 8:04 AM

This weekend project is actually a publicity for a Solarbotics product. Why this???


Posted by: Pauly on June 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM

Mousebot

Robot Living has made one. Seems like a coll project.

http://www.robotliving.com/2008/06/15/herbie-the-mousebot/


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