{"id":9237,"date":"2006-10-05T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9237"},"modified":"2006-10-05T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T06:30:47","slug":"easy-analog-drawing-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9237","title":{"rendered":"Easy, Analog Drawing Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/drawbot.jpg\">When I became interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BEAM\" target=\"new\">BEAM robotics<\/a> and started taking apart pagers to cannibalize their motors, I was fascinated by the offset-weight on the motor shaft. That&#8217;s what makes your pager or other comm device vibrate, a one-sided weight spinning around and causing the vibrations you feel. While these weights are usually removed in miniature bot building, I started thinking about how you could use this off-kilter rumbling as a form of motility. Later, I discovered there&#8217;s a whole branch on the BEAM family tree for these &#8220;Vibrobots.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Zach Debord, who created the <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1375\" target=\"new\">Twin Engine Solarroller<\/a> has built some cool Vibrobots. I&#8217;m going to talk to him about another Street Tech piece that shows off some of these and describes how he built &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p> Which brings us to this amazing, analog vibrobot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finkbuilt.com\/blog\/kids-art-bot\/\" target=\"new\">drawing robot<\/a> project, built with little more than a paper cup, three felt pens, a battery pack and a DC toy motor with an &#8220;eccentric weight.&#8221; The video of the builder&#8217;s son taking it for a spin is adorable.<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\"><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I became interested in BEAM robotics and started taking apart pagers to cannibalize their motors, I was fascinated by the offset-weight on the motor shaft. That&#8217;s what makes your pager or other comm device vibrate, a one-sided weight spinning around and causing the vibrations you feel. While these weights are usually removed in miniature &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easy, Analog Drawing Robot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}