ratb0t

This is the ratb0t, he has a nervous behavior and remainds me of a rat.. :]

I´m using an Arduino Diecimila to control the steering servo and the traction motor.

The XBee module receives data from another Arduino, this one has a wii nunchuck controller attached.

Next Step: make it autonomous

Update:
I forgot to tell a little story about this little and nervous fellow.
One day my mother told me she had one hair-removal thing broken (Braun Silk Epil brand ), and she said that she would bring it to me so that I fixed it.
Of course I accepted, but I must confess, I never ever tried to fix it :)

This made me think a lot on how could I twist it and use it to give life to a robot.

The most difficult part was to transform the front blades onto a wheel, I did it using pieces of bike air-chamber, rubber and hot glue.
I like the final result and it works quite well!

Shame on me because I didn´t document the building proccess.. I will try not to repeat it :)

If you have some interesting mechanical broken items I accept them :)

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7 thoughts on “ratb0t”

  1. Cool robot!

    Could you post the code for this? I’ve been trying to get my xBee communications working for a while, but am having trouble reading the strings. It might help a lot if I could see how you did it.

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