Bristlebots are getting Playful - More Developments of the Crowd
More and more videos appear exploring the concept of vibro- and bristlebots. This video shown here directly played itself into my heart. It is so tweaky, cutting is good and the bristlebot is fast and cute. What, cute? Can a bristlebot be cute? Somehow it can.
Some more things happen. The very inventors of the bristlebot itself mounted a pager-motor on a chip and bend the pins to make it run around a little bit. Good work.
Another video is showing a vibrobot made of an old camera. Compared to them, our very first try of doing an own bristle is somehow decent, but like commenters at YouTube suggested we could make the "front wheels" flexible in order to give that plastic acid bot a little amount of more control.
You may also want to put the bristles on a gaming field. Add robot features and begin to play an interactive game to beat the other bots.
A man called Chris Cerrito experimented a little bit with very solid made bristlebots and paint. Obviously they had lots of fun doing it. Call it robotic-generated art if you want to.
Tags: bristlebot, homebrew, vibrobot, community, crowd, game, play, art, swarm, indie-labs
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