The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun. The BristleBot is our take on the popular vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single vibrating (eccentric) motor.
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15 Comments
I knew someone would come up with a use for old pagers, VIBRATE ON!
and old toothbrushes!
this is way cool
So simple and so much fun. This one is a stress reliever, when you have a worktable with a little fence on the edges, so the robot doesn't fall to the ground and get eaten by a cat.
genius..love the idea..now all i need is a pager...
Beautiful, simple. I made a brush motor out of a fingernail brush and small dc motor with a weight for a physics class I taught. But it wasn't as elegant as this.
cool
thank you!
very nice idea! :)
I hafe taken a large pager motor out off my gamecube controller and i don't know where to fit it on...
please respond if you have a idea!!
There is a pager motor in
gamecube controller
p2 controller
xbox 360 controller
and much more..!
but they are slightly bigger,
so what you wanna do is
mount it on 2 heads (toothbrush)
and then you use a bigger battery and your done!
AND YES, IT REALY WORKS!
can you give me the article on hoe to do this one?????
i'm very interested to make this............
Call me crazy, but that is so cute!
How do you add the copper wire to the pager motor?
where can i find a pager motor???i really wanna make on!!
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