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The SpiderBot.


A weekend project: The BristleBot.

My inspiration came from RTL-Z News. Here, a guy named David Lemereis from Bright TV , was making a BristleBot. The reason why I didn't make a BristleBot are for the following reasons:
  1. External charger - You need some extra batteries to charge the BristleBot. So why not making an internal battery so it can power itself?
  2. Capacitor - I didn't have a capacitor that big from capacity. It's a weekend project so I didn't want to purchase and wait for the parts either.
  3. 2 Vibrating Disk Motors - I have some old cellphones but they do not have vibrating disk motors.
In the You Tube video below you can see the BristleBot from David in action which was my inspiration.

My weekend project: The SpiderBot.

For this weekend project the following parts where needed as seen below . Just scroll trough the pictures.
The idea of the spider; To get an idea of how a spider looks like I just googled "spider".  On the image below you can see all the body parts of the spider.
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Attaching the vibrating motor; To get the vibrating motor attached to the spider's body I just took some hot glue from the Window Bug. I cutted out a little piece and place it on the spider's body. Then I used a heatgun at about 150ºC and glued the motor to the spider's body(flashmemory). The brown/yellow stuff in the image below is the hot glue seen at the back of the Window Bug. The first time I broke the quicksilver switch, that's the one in the image. Luckily I had two of them.
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And the final result: The SpiderBot. 

After all the soldering and gluing the parts together the final result is seen below.  At the first image the spider is normally turned ON. On the second image the spider is dead. You can clearly see that the quicksilver switch is turned OFF. At the third and last image you can see the added switch. Now the spider is standing on his legs and turned OFF.

SpiderBot in action: At the video below you can see the SpiderBot in action. If you want to see more of my projects you can go to my YouTube channel or see the SpiderBot directly on YouTube.

I hope you enjoyed this project.



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