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Bugger: a Friendly Beetle
Meet bugger! He is an affectionate beetle who loves to be petted. Like any beetle, he has six legs and two antennae, a head, thorax, and abdomen. (His head is obvious, but in case you are wondering, his thorax in the main picture is the part in front of the NXT and his abdomen has the legs, NXT, and motors.) His program goes like this: He walks forward until he sees you in front of him with his Ultrasonic. He then stops walking and starts chirping. (Sound file: blips 25.) When you pet him several times, he stops chirping and the program ends. How does he know that you are petting him? Well, there is a touch sensor hidden under the far back part of the orange spikey things that detects bumped in the program. When it is bumped several times, he stops chirping to indicate that he is content to be left alone now. (Cool fact- his antennae have translucent green little LEGO pieces at the tips, so it looks a little like bioluminescence.)

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 legolover2832

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 19 March 2013

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 bug, insect, cool, legs, walker, walking, robot, animal, beetle

Technicalities of Bugger

In the main picture in this step, you can see the gear assembly that controls the legs of Bugger. The little gears spin counterclockwise, the big gears spin clockwise, and that makes the bottom of the feet rotate counterclockwise around an imaginary point in the air. This sort of acts like a wheel. (Bugger walks to the left in the picture.) The second picture in this step shows the bottom of the feet. I will label the feet in normal reading order, (i.e., left to right, top to bottom) from A to F. Whenever legs A, D, and E are touching the ground B, C, and F are moving forward to take another step- visa versa. This way, there are always at least three legs on the ground and Bugger is stable. Pictures three and four show the location of the mostly-hidden touch sensor. (Picture four shows the back panels taken off to make the touch sensor in the wide open.) Picture five shows where all the wires are in a tangle in the center of Bugger. Thus concludes my description of Bugger. P.S., please comment if you can.

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  • NXDave

  • Looks like a pretty stable 6 legged walking platform to me! NXDave.

  • Posted 91 days and 10 hours ago


  • darthr25

  • cool!

  • Posted 91 days and 10 hours ago



  • penguin314

  • I tried making something similar to this with four legs...but it failed. nice job!

  • Posted 91 days and 9 hours ago



  • ottobot100

  • You have really great ways of doing mechanics. Your lucky you have enough parts, often people want to build something but don't have enough supplies.

  • Posted 91 days and 7 hours ago


  • cracker77

  • cool

  • Posted 90 days and 13 hours ago


  • ploopy88

  • I tried building a walker with the same mechanics... and failed miserably. Nice 'bot.

  • Posted 88 days and 16 hours ago



  • ThatAlphaKId

  • Does anyone realise that bugger is a bad word?

  • Posted 18 days and 10 hours ago


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