Bug Bot Scares Away the Bogie Man
September 12th, 2007 by Dave"Droid Works" recently joined our forums, and he submitted this gem to our Project Showcase forum (which means he’s entered in this month’s Submit Your Project and WIN Contest!).
It’s a suped-up Parallax BOE-Bot designed to seek out dark places and illuminate them. I’ll let him explain the project in his own words:
| "This is a boe-bot I made for my daughter. It is a standard boe-bot and homework board with the crawler kit and the ping))) kit. I also added a red wide spectrum laser light. Basically what it does is wander around and shine its red beam in the darkest areas of the room. My daughter is 6 years old and is going through the scared of the dark phase. So I made this bot to look like a cute bug and shine light in the dark areas of her room while it wanders, and make my daughter feel like she is not in the room alone. Needless to say she loves it…" |
You’ll find a few more pictures of this critter (and its human master) in the forum thread:
http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=1139
If you’re interested in getting the BOE-Bot starter kit, click anywhere within this sentence.
To see the other Parallax products we carry, check out this blog post from last week.
