DIY PIXAR: M-O (Microbe Obliterator) Cleaner Bot

Step 10 Completed!

So there you have it, a working M-O cleaning bot replica!  I never truly feel that my inventions are ever fully completed, there's still a lot of things I love adding to them, and M-O is still a work in progress for me.  I'm thinking of perhaps adding on a mini flashing LED siren light later as well as a couple more brushes. 

Anyway, I hope that all of your other electronic projects go well and that I may have provided you with some additional help for cleaning up afterwards. Oh, and stay tuned for my next PIXAR instructable later on this week!

Comments

[thedevilyoudont]

WOW pretty sweet man! can a make a suggestion though? if you were to use a second set of drive motors and wire them up similar to how a tank drives (one side forward and one side back to turn) you could potentially set it up to move similar to the balancing robots you see here (and this would take some doing and probably a full redesign (thinking I might do it myself too) but you could also use the liquid filled backpack as a kind of ballast to help him balance. alternately if you were to attach the brushes a little differently so they were hinged he could potentially be steered by raising/lowering the arms in opposing directions...
just future Ideas though no criticism meant and certainly nothing negative you did an amazing job on this little guy. Im definitely going to try to make one

[Miscellaneous]

Does this robot only move in one direction or does it have the ability (when it hits a wall or such) to turn and continue on its way?

[SHIFT!]

It's unidirectional for the time being. But like I said, this is a work in progress and for a larger scale model I'm planning on adding a drive track to him so he can hopefully follow a line.

[rawbits]

Great insturctable! I like the idea and it's my faveorite character in the movie. But I'll recommend the modifications I commented to the spets and some arm handling mechanism with the controller. You also can use the radio controllers of thoese cars... Nice work!

[SHIFT!]

Thanks rawbits! I would have added in motor controllers for the arms, if I had had enough space inside the robot to do so. I'll probably do that when I create a full life sized version.