Junkbots

Capturing some of the tweets about Junkbots at Mozilla Festival 2017 #Mozfest  https://mozillafestival.org/   great Crumble session 2day at #mozfest from @scottturneruon . Micro-egg bots!!! @RedfernElec @Baggiepr Great stepping stone into CrumbleBots! pic.twitter.com/0TZ2vr4Qat — Nic Hughes (@duck_star) October 29, 2017 @AlwaysComputing Look at what you're missing... pic.twitter.com/DrpEAy51r8 — Alan O'Donohoe (@teknoteacher) October 29, 2017 Great day at #mozfest . Till next year. Again met meant inspiring people and saw awesome ideas! Plus anyone I missed! pic.twitter.com/eL52cRIMwE — Nic Hughes (@duck_star) October 29, 2017 Details of the activity can be found at http://bit.ly/2yZ3dZT If you would like to know more about the Junkbots project contact scott.turner@northampton.ac.uk

This is a two-part series on a new Junkbots project. In last part building the junkbot itself was discussed . In the this part controlling the junkbot via Crumble is discussed. So build the junkbot as discussed in the previous blog post. Kit ·       Kinder Egg (without the Chocolate and toy) ·       Crumble ·       4x Crocodile clips and leads ·       Battery pack and 3xAA ·       Vibrating motor ·       Tape (lots of) . Sticky-tack of some form. ·       Pens ·       Paper ·       Scissors ·       Glue and Gluegun (optional) Disconnect the battery connection (the connections on the motor can stay as they are). Connect the USB cable to the Crumble. To the right of the USB connect there are ...

This is a two-part series on a new Junkbots project. In this part building the junkbot itself is discussed. In the second part controlling the junkbot via Crumble is discussed. The work was first shown at Mozilla Festival 29th October 2017. Three inspirations for this project ·       Eggbot - http://www.instructables.com/id/Plastic-Egg-Bot/?utm_content=buffer9b065&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ·   Femi Owolade supported by Nic Hughes ran a session at Mozilla Festival 2016 using the Crumble’s to make a wheeled robot. ·   The junkbot project https://junkbots.blogspot.co.uk/ Kit ·       Kinder Egg (without the Chocolate and toy) ·       Crumble ·       4x Crocodile clips and leads ·       Battery pack and 3xAA ·       Vibrating motor ·...

Over the last eight years I have been working (off and on) on a project, junkbots ( http://junkbots.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/introduction.html ), in which 'junk' is used to embed environmental, engineering and computing concepts. One part that has grown from this project is using drinks cans, motor, batteries and something to unbalance the motor to produce a vibrating 'bot' that move along a smooth surface.  To add a little more control both Raspberry Pis ( http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/raspberry-pi-controlled-robot-from-junk.html ) and Micro:bits ( http://robotsandphysicalcomputing.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/do-it-yourself-remote-controlled.html ) have been investigated. In this post a Crumble controller from Redfern Electronics is used. The crumble controller is an excellent board for this project, it is relatively cheap, it is programmable with it's own graphical language, and it has motor drivers built in. In ...