Miniball Solar Robot

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 24 of November , 2009 at 2:54 am

Little solar robots are a great way to start learning about electronics and robotics and soldering and stuff, and Jerome Demers (an intern over at Solarbotics) came up with with this solar powered bot that drives itself inside a ball. Like most photovores, the solar panel doesn’t provide enough power for the robot to run continuously, and a capacitor is used to drive the bot in bursts. The ball helps with this, however, and it looks like you get a lot of continuous motion out of it… Not bad for a $23 kit, I’d say.

[ Miniball Parts Kit ]
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