Hey there robot lovers,
The vacuum cleaner robot on the previous post is now complete and here are some pics and a video.
At the moment I am working on a docking station for the robot to charge itself and automatically clean the house every day, at the same hour. It will be awesomelicious.
This is the prototype circuit, we will print a new circuit now.
And here is a video that you can see how vacuuminator tracks items (couch and table in this example) in order to clean the edges and corners.
Vacuuminator, the home-made vacuum cleaner robot from MrBeaver on Vimeo.
#1 by TheRubikCube - September 24th, 2009 at 06:43
Cool, robots.
Referring to the post, Small Fella, how do you build that robot? Can you draw a schematic for it? I would really like to use that as a template for my BEAM bot. Of course, you will be in my credits.
Can email it to me? (thercube@gmail com - add a period)
Thanks and continue building these fantasic robots.
#2 by Tolga - January 14th, 2010 at 16:33
Hey there, it was a quite simple robot, I believe the circuit was on:
http://costaricabeam.solarbotics.net/Circuits/Vores_Main.htm
It was probably the “Battery Vore” circuit there. Not sure tho, it has been some time since Ive built it.
#3 by cosmin - February 5th, 2010 at 11:22
Hello, i really enjoyed your videos about your robots, and i think it’s so cool to be able to build such things.
I would really like to learn how to make them, i know this sound like a crappy question, but i’m not a noob, i am kinda familiar with programming, more on web programming and a little C++.
So can you recommend me some tutorials or resources something you started on when you were like me ?:)
Thanks!
#4 by Tolga - February 7th, 2010 at 00:09
Hi there Cosmin,
I am usually using Arduino (an open source platform that uses Atmel microprocessors.).
It has its own syntax, but it is quite similar to java and an easy one to use. http://www.arduino.cc/
There are many other microprocessors out there such as PIC that you can use.
But to use these, you need some electronics knowledge, if you never built any robot before, I suggest you to check out http://www.solarbotics.com . They have some nice kits to start robotics.
Good luck =)