Dumbots- The Inchworm Bot
This is the inchworm bot. It moves along under the power of one motor that engages when the touch sensor is pressed. The wheel moves off the sensor when the bot moves forward, and then the robot stops, making the wheel fall onto the sensor again, having the bot move forward. This continues indefinitely.
Michael’s Robot Blooper — George School, 2007
Here is a humorous out-take video of my student Michael Tseng’s attempt to get his Mouse robot to run a 100-cm There-and-Back sprint. As you can see his robot’s left wheel spins out, causing his robot to turn improperly. Such is the life of a roboticist! We have since replaced the wheels with the soft rubber wheels that are now standard on all of Robodyssey’s wheeled robots and this kind of blooper happens less frequently, now.Robodyssey Systems manufactures the Mouse robot and RAMB II motherboard you see here. The robot’s brain is NetMedia’s BX-24 microcontroller, which is programmed using the BasicX language. I am the author of the world’s only BasicX textbook; if you are interested in learning how to program your own robot, see my website at www.basicxandrobotics.com.
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