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DVD player junk-bot?

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So I made a robot entirely out of the parts in a DVD player. It was an old one, but it had all of the parts I needed. I used my own personal favorite design for the circuit. Soon I am going to order all of the parts from solarbotics.com to make a duplicate, only I'll be putting the parts on a custom PCB. I made the case out of the DVD players case with a welding torch and a table saw. I'll get pictures up when I get a new camera.

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It is a small, vehicular, robot. It is a rectangular shape. It weighs... No I don't know yet, I haven't weighed it, nor do I care too because I'm not going to be submitting it to this months competition.

It is a light seeking, ROAM type robot. It has 3 motors. 2 for wheels that are located in the "back" of the robot on either side. 1 in the center of those two, connecting to rubber bands that allows for the robot to spin on a 360 degree axis. It has 3 "bumpers", as I like to call them. They are switches or "buttons" that cause the light seeking function to shut off, and all motors besides the axis motor, to reverse, for about .8 seconds timed (it varies on how hard the bot, hits a wall). This way, when the robot hits a wall or any other object, it backs up, turns, and returns to its light seeking state.... Basically the robot has AI. When it runs into walls it backs up and goes a different route.


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MadPumpkin wrote:So I made a robot entirely out of the parts in a DVD player. It was an old one, but it had all of the parts I needed. I used my own personal favorite design for the circuit. Soon I am going to order all of the parts from solarbotics.com to make a duplicate, only I'll be putting the parts on a custom PCB. I made the case out of the DVD players case with a welding torch and a table saw.

I'll get pictures up when I get a new camera.
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davidthefat wrote:
MadPumpkin wrote:So I made a robot entirely out of the parts in a DVD player. It was an old one, but it had all of the parts I needed. I used my own personal favorite design for the circuit. Soon I am going to order all of the parts from solarbotics.com to make a duplicate, only I'll be putting the parts on a custom PCB. I made the case out of the DVD players case with a welding torch and a table saw.

I'll get pictures up when I get a new camera.
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t minus 4:59 and counting...

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Lol nice. PICTURES!
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dandymcgee wrote:Lol nice. PICTURES!
Sorry man! Maybe I'll take the pics with my phone and upload them. But I also want nice shots of the insides too. So I need a good camera...


SOMEWHERE IN MEXICO: So I decided that the rectangle case just isn't pimping the way that I like it... So I'm going to kill an old computer mouse and put the parts in their... mostly because that would be bad-ass... But it would also be funny as hell to sick on my neighbors dog.
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