User:Mhassanu5050/ENES-100/project 1


 * project 1: bristle bot

Week1 narative
''the new project that me and my group are starting is the bristle bot project. over the first weekend my goal is to find out a way to get 100 toothbrushes for the project under the $100 mark. i looked up the website of walmart, shoopers, dollar tree and mars but didn't find any cheap electric brushes. then i looked at some of the bulk buying websites. even there the brushes weren't that cheap, the cheapest being about $5-7 on http://www.dentaldepot.com/category/CHEAP_ELECTRIC_TOOTHBRUSHES. the final way i tried to get a cheap bristle-bot was to buy the brushes and the vibrator motor separately. so this is the website for the brushes that i found http://venturesix.com/store/index.php and the website to buy the motors that i found was this http://www.totobay.com/wholesale-cell-phone-vibrator_c2840/. the problem with buying the bulk brushes is that the company's smallest ordering size is 200, so that would cost $23 and the 100 motors would cost $75 plus shipping.shipping costs are about $36. but what i found was that the cheapest way to get the 100 brushes is by family dollar.''

Week2 Narrative
''during this week i worked on my own bristle bot, trying to make it go as straight as possible. My design uses one brush, one motor, battery. First i took the motor and the battery casing that came in the brush and glued both those parts together using Krazy glue. Next i took the motor and the casing and glued it to the brush. the reason for me mounting the motor like that is to make the center of gravity of the brush in a straight line as much as possible. Then in the end to provide a little more stability i added a piece of wire on both sides at the back end of the bot., and the video that shows it goes straight is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFQ1GJ-h8sM.''

Week3 Narrative
''during the weekend of week three of the project i finished the tutorial on how to make the basic bristle bot. There were two designs but me and my partner decided that my design was what we were going to go with. the tutorial on how to make the basic bristle bot is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF_xPwiuB6Q. our next step is to make a bristle bot that can be turned on or off using a wireless controller. For this i watched some videos and researched what parts in a RC car we can use to make a remote switch. ''

Week4 Narrative
''during this week i am working on the final bristle bot design in which i am going to make a bristle bot that is remote controlled, in a sense that it can be turned on remotely and can also be steered using the same remote control. instead of making a bot from the start i am using a small remote control car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re8ssleqgVE..This is the process.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuLn7-1B-vg., and this is the end result.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atBCJZaNSwc&feature=youtu.be. .
 * project prefrences: 1.bristlebot 2.music 3.tribot.''