SapoBot is a robot that wonders through spaces avoiding obstacles detects holes on the ground, follow walls and follow lines, to change between behaviors you only need to press the shell, and when he detects a collision gives a frog sound. This project was comissioned by Sapo, means frog in portuguese. This bots were made [...]
Four wheel drive vehicles have always excited my imagination, and this time I joined two Farrusco’s chassis in front to front as you can see in the picture below: This way both chassis are fixed on each other (is this correct to say in english??) and I thought it would be cool to have them [...]
I didn’t feel so happy with this minimalistic chassis design so I felt the need to add some complexity to it. And because I am a 3D lover and because I have some spare time I decided to do what I never use to do: “think before act”. Oh, and the other thing that makes [...]
BOTtle is a robot like many others but with a particularity, the wheels are made of plastic bottles as you can see in this video: The components I will be using: The servos are already attached to one another with double side-tape, I will show you how to attach the wheels to the servo horns [...]
This is an old idea, finally I have the time to show it to the world. The are bottle shapes that perfectly fit together, you will see how easy it is to create a wheel from two plastic bootles, the video speaks for itself: Check this post to see how I attached the wheels to [...]
Farrusco is a small robot based on the Arduino platform, in this case, is using a Motoruino wich is inspired on the Arduino but with a couple of enhancements – dc motor dual controller, servo and sensor plugs. With Farrusco you will be able to make it avoid obstacles, follow walls, enter in free space [...]
The motoruino is so easy to setup, just plug the motors, sensors, upload code and your bot is ready to go. I added a big capacitor (4700uF) on the PCB power connections as I had the Motoruino resetting randomly when a motor started (OddBot explains everything here) This is a quick test drive with the [...]
I’ve found this two rc vehicles on a junk, they are in a very bad condition. The big one has the DC motor burned out, I will try to replace it.. brushless motor maybe. They both have two different gear mode (hi and low speed), I am wishing to try it out. This is the [...]
Two more infrared sensors were added on the front, this way he’s more sensitive to the environment. Video is on the go.. You can see more details about the construction process on this post. Updated version here. source code
It’s been quite a while without building robots… errr.. creatures.. anyhow I’m releasing this new creature, wich is still a work in progress.. and since I can’t think on a name for it, I will call it demannU, witch is “unnamed” backwards… sounds like ‘demon’, and for the sake of insanity, it looks like a [...]
