BEETLE BOT

A Simple Beetle Bot For Begineers

Tools Needed:

soldering iron ( here's a helpful tutorial on soldering )
electronic solder
diagonal cutter
Mini glue gunComponents for the robot
2x - small 1.5 Volts motors
2x - small paperclips
2x - big paperclips
2x - batteries AAA or AA
1x - battery holder AAA or AA
1x - 2 cm of heat shrink
1x - wooden pearl (for the caster)
1x - meter of electric wire
2x - Sub-mini lever SPDT switches

Here are the serial numbers of the components and tools from RadioShack .
Component
Number
soldering iron
64-2184
electronic solder
64-006
diagonal cutter
64-2951
1.5 Volts motor
273-223
battery holder
270-398
SPDT switch

275-016 Most of the components can be bought for much cheaper at Digi-Key, Jameco, or similar. At Solarbotics you can find the dual AA battery holder and the Mabuchi motor. You can find these components at any good electronic store.Here is all the parts for the construction the beetle robot.

1. Cut the electric wires in pieces of 6cm each , 13 times

Strip 1 cm at each end

2. Regroup all the components.

3. Solder each wire to each components except the two batteries.

4. Take the battery holder and make a connection to the connection.

This will give a third connection.See picture below.

The blue wire is the third connections

5. Turn the battery holder up side down so the batteries point to the ground. Glue the two switches on the battery holder in V form.

6. Glue the motor beside each switch so that the shaft touches the ground

7. Take the big paperclip and make the caster like the picture below.

You can make a nice looking caster or a normal one

I prefer the nice one

8. How to make the connection

9. Take the small paper clip and bend them to make antenna.

Glue them to the switches and don't put to much glue.

Add 1 cm of heat shrink to the shaft of each motor.

10. Add the batteries in the battery holder and put it on a flat surface to see your creation take life.