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Cham

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Category: Rolling
Cost: $12

I built this bot small and compact to see how small I could get it and I wanted to make it very robust as people can't resist picking them up when on display and several of my photovores have been killed or damaged. this little guy fits in my pocket and is very durable


Components:
  • 4700 uF cap
  • 2 surplus motors
  • from Electronic Goldmine
  • FRED circuit
  • Panasonic solar cell
  • colored heatshrink
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Comments

simplebotics's picture

did you use two modules with

by simplebotics - 01/24/2011 - 3:29pm

did you use two modules with identical capacitors?

peterman921's picture

it uses the fred circuit,

by peterman921 - 01/24/2011 - 4:56pm

it uses the fred circuit, basically two fled circuits tied together with 1 large storage capacitor.

 

http://www.solarbotics.net/library/circuits/se_t1_fled.html#fred

simplebotics's picture

awesome photovore, im gonna

by simplebotics - 01/17/2011 - 11:13am

awesome photovore, im gonna make a vibro beam bot with a FLED solar engine!

nice job too!