The first time I had sparky online for a longer time together with Cardbot, you can imagine people would be up for shenanigans really quickly.
After around 3 hours of being online Sparky used his claw powers to get as much objects under my bed as he could. This is the result:
Cardbot felt quite lonely, so I wanted to create a little sibling for him. 🙂 Jokes aside I thought it would be cool to iterate on the single robot on have a second one so they can interact with eachother.
And this time I wanted to opt for a more compact design for better mobility and also add a gripper. I also ordered a fisheye lens for my Raspberry Pi for a bigger viewing angle.
The little headlight LED I added reminded me of an Anglerfish as well – I thought it was cute. But it is actually really useful to navigate the bot in the dark, with the added bonus to be able to turn it off. All in all this bot has better suited components than Cardbot and is more well rounded (pun may or not be intended).
My first robot! I were pretty excited to have all the parts gathered and be able to build it. I went for a balance of cheap and easy parts, which is why it ended up being on a cardboard box/bowl.
The whole design is based of ziptying everything on the box and then connecting the cables. I checked beforehand how long the cables should be ideally and cut them to size.