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cool spider you can make it with just a electric motor, wires and battery, you can make it turn side way and backward with just a bend on the spider legs.
cool spiders
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step 1Materals and tools

MATERIAL: solder wire, coppter wire, electric motor( you can get it from old cell phone) battery TOOLS: solder, and solder wire.


step 2measure wires

you need to cut out1 = 4cm head1 = 12cm body6 = 4.5cm front legs2 = 6.5cm rear legs2 = 2cm across spider body1 = 3cm across spider body.


step 3put together the wires

place all the wire as show below and solder it.


step 4connect the electric motor

solder a 1cm cross the electric motor and connect the wires to + and -


step 5solder the motor

solder the electric motor to the head of the spider


step 6ready for the test

connect wires to the battery and place the battery on to the body of the spider and connect the wires to the electric motor, for more info how it works. please watch the video


46 comments
Feb 14, 2009. 9:57 AMHamlet says:
I like the idea! I was trying to make a modified version yesterday, but instead i ended up burning my self with my soldering iron. so today i took the time to take apart my mom's old cellphone and found the motor. and all i got to do is put it together. hopefully without burning my fingers again.
Aug 21, 2008. 8:04 AMevilgenius 398 says:
you could add a 555 timer chip and a relay so that it goes one way for a wile stops and goes the other way
Jul 19, 2008. 7:20 PMpuffyfluff says:
I have something like this that I got at the Milwaukee Art Muesuem. It's wind up though-I like the battery better.

Great instructable, good pics!
May 7, 2008. 5:15 PMmettaurlover says:
you can put rings on the back as a battery-holder on the rungs, and use foil for contacts, or the body of the spider by making it two layers and seperate them...
Mar 26, 2008. 12:49 AMBlue_Cube says:
what are the materials of it
Jan 4, 2008. 9:56 PMidiotjohn says:
Yeah. This is cool! But one thing that uses similar parts but is cooler is the bristlebot! Here for instructions.
Youtube video below is instructions and watching it move:


Feb 27, 2008. 9:51 AMMahmoud.Samy says:
very nice diy

thank you
Dec 8, 2007. 8:30 AMwesie42 says:
oops i mean a motor
Feb 26, 2008. 12:16 PMdean-101 says:
you get them inside mobile phones. another place u can get them only a bit bigger is in game controlers
Feb 15, 2008. 9:02 PMBig Bubba says:
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Dec 8, 2007. 8:29 AMwesie42 says:
where would you get a wire that samll?
Nov 19, 2007. 4:03 AMhm2k says:
"coppter wire" godda get me some of that!

Assuming copper wire then... ;)
Nov 9, 2007. 2:04 PMfma321 says:
Nice project but you should refine your soldering techniques. It would make for more professional result. Try heating the wires with the iron and melting the solder with the wires allowing the solder to flow. This would prevent globs and cold solders.
Nov 6, 2007. 3:20 PMLastMaster says:
This should be called the lol spider... its great very fun little project makes me lol all the time... i think thats just me though >.>

Ither way, i see that someone shops at RadioShack *looks at iron*

:)

Very cool instructable ;)
Nov 7, 2007. 12:55 AMLastMaster says:
I finished mine.. and my spider has less solder so it looks a bit cleaner and.. i made the motor look like its head somehow..

Except i use this real thin wire and it look sall measy and tangled on my spider.. other than that I think mine looks pretty decent for being the first thing i ever soldered :)
That worked too lol
Nov 7, 2007. 8:25 AMbangbang007 (author) says:
cool, if you had a picture of your spider posted here, that will be nice.
Nov 8, 2007. 2:36 PMLastMaster says:
Yep this is my first soldering project.. i thought it would be easy and it was. It let me get the hang of soldering, and soldering to the motor with 30 gauge wire was a hassle, with the 1st motor, except i burnt that one out with a 9V xD
And this motor was powered a AAA. :)
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Nov 9, 2007. 9:02 AMbangbang007 (author) says:
thanks for posting the picture, your look pretty cool much better than mine.

Nov 3, 2007. 9:22 PMAeshir says:
Can someone tell me what happens in the video? I can't watch it because i'm on dial-up.
Nov 8, 2007. 7:24 PMDoctor What says:
he makes his spider, and turns it on. he turns it on, and it goes around, and around, and around, stuck on one leg.
Nov 4, 2007. 7:56 AMAerospaced says:
Parts needed for spider.
1 aa battery.
2 16 ga solid wire.
3 small vibrate motor from pager or phone.
make frame shaped like spider to hold battery and motor in line.
Mount motor so that spinning weight is to front.
mount battery on body behind motor.
connect wires or switch on.
Vibration causes spider to "crawl" around.
Nov 5, 2007. 11:41 AMHYRYSC says:
another kewl thing to try is to wire a very small blinking LED light between the motor and the battery, then the spider will only vibrate each time the LED lights up.
Nov 5, 2007. 3:41 PMbangbang007 (author) says:
i was thinking to do that but i didn't have time ..
Nov 6, 2007. 7:44 AMHYRYSC says:
The great thing is that you did something very cool and you shared it with the rest of us to copy. Thanks for that!
Nov 5, 2007. 9:08 AMandy60 says:
am gonna make abig one with the offset motor from my old x-box controller, i can just imagine it now, crawling in my sisters room lol
Nov 5, 2007. 9:06 AMoriginalwynne says:
that is so cool :)
Nov 3, 2007. 11:51 AMX_D_3_M_1 says:
what happens if u solder a battery? im curious
Nov 3, 2007. 4:12 PMKiteman says:
He uses clear sticky tape to hold the ends of the wire on the battery terminals.

You can solder wires onto battery terminals, if you're careful (shorted batteries over-heat), but there's no point unless the battery is rechargeable - if it's not, your project is useless as soon as the battery dies.

Nov 3, 2007. 7:00 PMX_D_3_M_1 says:
i know he uses tape, i just wanted to know if it blew up ur hand or sumtin
Nov 4, 2007. 9:02 AMbangbang007 (author) says:
I try to solder the battery but it just get really hot...it didn't blow up or anything
Nov 4, 2007. 10:57 AMKiteman says:
Over-heating can lead to explosions as the contents boil. That's why you shouldn't throw batteries into fires.

Nov 1, 2007. 8:43 PMjtobako says:
Is that a pager vibrator? You should tell people that it's a motor WITH AN OFF-CENTER WEIGHT ON IT. Otherwise your 'robot' won't work.
Nov 3, 2007. 4:23 PMdentsinger says:
It's quite easy to offset the balance of any motor. It doesn't take much.
Nov 4, 2007. 8:12 AMjtobako says:
If you know to do it. The instructible at the time of comment didn't say how or what made it work. Since most motors are carefully balanced NOT to vibrate, it wouldn't have worked.
Nov 2, 2007. 4:02 AMbangbang007 (author) says:
forgot, yess thank you for mention it. it is a vibrator motor i got it from my old cell phone.
Nov 2, 2007. 10:28 AMwhiteoakart says:
Jeez, it never occurred to me to snag the motor from the cell phone vibrator. That's cool. I feel like an idiot.

Nevertheless, this is a cool little project.

Now where is that old phone.....
Nov 3, 2007. 6:54 PMbangbang007 (author) says:
my old phone still in used. but with out the vibrating setting.
Nov 2, 2007. 2:03 AMJames (pseudo-geek) says:
I do believe it is.
Nov 2, 2007. 3:25 PMKiteman says:
I want to see somebody make an army of these and race them across a kitchen floor!
Nov 3, 2007. 3:14 PMbubba77 says:
lol i was just thinking that
Nov 2, 2007. 6:20 AMrockyt says:
my t610 wound up parted as well. Was a good phone tho.
Nov 2, 2007. 5:43 AMker-boom101 says:
i love your past instructable ive made all of them even the ccm please keep coming with these wonderful instructable
Nov 2, 2007. 4:51 AMinspector_fegter says:
This is one of the coolest I've seen in a long time! Love it.
Nov 2, 2007. 3:15 AMLftndbt says:
Oh!!
I can so see a mini army of tiny high powered lith-ion (sorry got it on the brain... Comes from selling drills all day!) crawlers!! Little titanium shells and legs... OH OH!! and a DVD burner diode mounted on its back!!!
Fun times! ROFL
Nov 1, 2007. 8:43 PMTeacherOfTheWays says:
Very cool!
Nov 1, 2007. 6:43 PMkruser495 says:
wow, this is very nice. also very creative. good job : )

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