Printing Plastic Bodies to turn an old BOE-Bot into a Child's Toy ...
Hi,
I've been playing with BOE's and BOE-Bots for a few years ... creating different things with them, but then I thought some of the original BOE-Bot projects do make good toys for little children if the BOE-Bot can be made safer for those children to play with the BOE-Bot ... so here are a few ideas I made;
Take the original BOE-Bot with the IR Roaming ... slight changes and a new body;
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/CollisionAvoidanceBOE-Bot.jpg
Now I modified that first body so that I could turn it into a scanning PING BOE-Bot;
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/PingHead-BOE-Bot.jpg
Yeah, I really did print'em out and am still in the build-up stage for several other projects ...
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/IMG_1845-20140414-BOE-Bots&FloppyBots-c.jpg
The little guy bottom center has an eMic2 with a 1W audio amp and PING that triggers different statements as users get closer or further from the bot ... ScardyBot.
More projects found here: http://www.brainless.org/Robots.html
The FloppyBots actually cover the first steps of the BOE-Bot projects, but in a just print it and assemble it method rather than all the discussions about each component. This gets the end user building a robot and seeing something working much quicker ... then if they decide they need to do more the basic BOE-Bot kit is a great step taking them to intermediate Roboteering ...
I've been playing with BOE's and BOE-Bots for a few years ... creating different things with them, but then I thought some of the original BOE-Bot projects do make good toys for little children if the BOE-Bot can be made safer for those children to play with the BOE-Bot ... so here are a few ideas I made;
Take the original BOE-Bot with the IR Roaming ... slight changes and a new body;
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/CollisionAvoidanceBOE-Bot.jpg
Now I modified that first body so that I could turn it into a scanning PING BOE-Bot;
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/PingHead-BOE-Bot.jpg
Yeah, I really did print'em out and am still in the build-up stage for several other projects ...
http://brainless.org/MultiMedia/Robotics/BOE-Bot/IMG_1845-20140414-BOE-Bots&FloppyBots-c.jpg
The little guy bottom center has an eMic2 with a 1W audio amp and PING that triggers different statements as users get closer or further from the bot ... ScardyBot.
More projects found here: http://www.brainless.org/Robots.html
The FloppyBots actually cover the first steps of the BOE-Bot projects, but in a just print it and assemble it method rather than all the discussions about each component. This gets the end user building a robot and seeing something working much quicker ... then if they decide they need to do more the basic BOE-Bot kit is a great step taking them to intermediate Roboteering ...