Junkbots

This is an interesting video I came across and fits with the Junk bot idea MAKE | How-To: Make a PopsicleBot 6-Legged Walker http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/how-to-make-a-popsiclebot-6-legged-walker.html

Junkbots - Nuffield Bursary Placement: Day 2 - DoodleBot meets JunkBot! Hayley is a Nuffield Bursary student working on the Junkbots project. The link above is to her blog about the project. If you want to see what can be done with pens, cardboard, straws, broken fan, a motor, batteries and wires this is a good place to look.

Artist Theo Jansen building moving sculptures from platic tubes, bottles, etc. Not really a junkbot but some interesting ideas from an engineering point of view. Theo Jansen creates new creatures | Video on TED.com

The junkbots activities were carried out in four one hour sessions at Guilsborough School, Northamptonshire. Pictures from the event:

The junkbots project website is now available at: http://www.web-sustainablity.net/junkbots/ Mobile version at: http://mobile.web-sustainablity.net/site/junkbots/www.computing.northampton.ac.uk/_scott/Junkbots.html