What a fantastic Friday! I spent it tinkering around with little motors and new electronics gadgets. I found spidery legs make a fantastic revision to our bristle-bots project; they keep it from falling over! Meet “Jalapeno” – our new office scuttle-bug…
Our bristle-bot anatomy includes the head of a toothbrush, 4 paper fasteners (the spidery legs), 1 coin battery (on top of the toothbrush head), 1 vibrating page motor (the yellow mini-motor wired to the battery), double-sided foam tape, and masking tape (the small purple piece that acts as the ‘switch’)
See our bristle-bot in action: Jalapeno enters the marble field…
