Bristle Bot – Bumper Car Brush Robot

Hi my name is Joseph Pinos, I am ten years old and I am a teacher at Tech 101 Kids and today I am talking about how I made my Bristle bots.

What You’ll Need

Recycled supplies:

• A scrubbing brush

• a motor taken from a play station remote or anything that vibrates, like cell phones (you could also buy vibration motors instead like these.

Supplies we got from Amazon:

• 1 x 9V battery

• 1 x 9V battery snap

• 1 x on/off rocker switch

Tools:

• electrical tape

• hot glue gun

• screwdriver (depends on what screw size your controller has)

Steps

1. I got a play station remote, took the screws out with a small screw driver and took the motor from the right (the one that looks like it’s in half)

2. I twisted the metal ends of cables of the motor together with the cables from the battery snap, red cable is positive and black cable is negative. Then I covered the twisted wires with electrical tape (I attached a small on/off switch in between the positive cable and the battery to control the robot)
   

   

3. Using hot glue, I glued the battery on one side of the brush and the motor at the other end
   

   

4. Ready for some fun!!!