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Cycler

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Category: Rolling
Progress: Completed
Cost: £20,000
Time to Build: 9 months

The Cycler Presentation Robots are used by Waste Watch to teach children in schools about recycling and waste prevention. Each of the three Cycler robots, Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley, has an MP3 player, sound system, seven motors, three microcontrollers and runs a personality program while waiting for high level commands from a human 'Handler'.

http://www.davidbuckley.net/FR/Cycler/CyclerPresentationRobot.htm

 


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jbot's picture

Very nice bots put to good

by jbot - 03/07/2010 - 2:32pm

Very nice bots put to good use!

David Buckley's picture

Shakespeare, Byron and

by David Buckley - 02/16/2010 - 5:42am

Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley were all male poets.

The eyes are blue LEDs inside old camera parts, but there is space in the middle for a real video camera.

William Cox's picture

Cycler looks like a neat

by William Cox - 02/15/2010 - 8:38pm

Cycler looks like a neat concept. How did you create the eyes? I like how they are able to move around a bit. Give him/her a lot of personality.