Projects
Robots
Start your own robotics project with Spout, Spider, and Bit-zee!
- 6th graders learn to build a Spider robot
- Parts list for Spider
- 1 Spider parts and tools
- 2 Hacking Spider's click n' stick
- 3 Creating the battery and motor mounts for Spider
- 4 Attach Spider's click n' stick base to the batteries and thread his wires
- 5 Attach Spider's motor controller and wire his motors
- 6 Connect Spider's power switch and run the power wires to the motor controller
- 7 Attach and adjust the Spider's bezel
- 8 Attach Spider's wheels
- 9 Make the connnectors for Spider's Arduino Nano
- 10 Spider Connect the power and signal wires from the motor controller to the Arduino
- 11 Attach Spider's LED eyes
- 12 Connect Spider's stablizer bar
- 13 Spider's Romance
- 14 Teaching Spider to dance
- 15 Ben Eater's Spider Bot
Bit-zee Bot
This project is a low cost robot made from every day items that are taken apart and described in the reverse engineering section
- 1. Bit-zee
- 2. Bit-zee (long version)
- 3. Bit-zee Bot Introduction
- 4. Bit-zee planning and propulsion
- 5. Bit-zee's bits
- 6. Bit-zee's chassis/frame
- 7. Bit-zee's wheel mounts and fenders
- 8. Bit-zee's component mounting holes
- 9. Bit-zee's batteries
- 10. Improving the battery wires
- 11. Connecting Bit-zee's power wires and on-off switch
- 12. Bit-zee's motors
- 13. Why does Bit-zee need a motor controller?
- 14. Bit-zee's motor controller
- 15. Attaching and wiring Bit-zee's motor controller
- 16. Attaching Bit-zee's Arduino
- 17. How to hotwire a digital camera
- 18. Attaching Bit-zee's digital camera
- 19. Bit zee's 5 Volt power distribution board
- 20. Hacking and attaching a digital recorder/player to Bit-zee
- 21. Making a power connector for the Arduino
- 22. Attaching Bit-zee's prototype board
- 23. Connecting the motor controller to the Arduino
- 24. Connecting Bit-zee's camera to the Arduino
- 25. Bit-zee's bumper switches
- 26. Bit-zee's eyes
- 27. Bit-zee's IR sensor
- 28. Bit-zee's shell
- 29. Camera wiring update
- 30. Load the Code for It-zee and Bit-zee