Mosquito Bot

Author

Tech 101 Kids
July 26, 2015

Hello my name is Joseph and I am a ten year old teacher at Tech 101 Kids.

Today I will be showing you how to make a mosquito bot.

What You Will Need

Recycled supplies:

  • 1 x coat hanger

  • 1 x medium sized bottle cap

  • a motor taken from a play station remote 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

  • 2 x LEDs

  • 2 x resistors

Tools

  • electrical tape

  • hot glue gun

  • scissors

Steps

  1. With the scissors, and cut out two six-inch sticks from the coat hanger.

  2. Bend the coat hanger sticks into U shapes.

  3. Now hot glue the hangar sticks onto the cap so it stands on its own.

  4. as we did in a earlier project take apart a play station remote (or anything that vibrates) and look for the vibrating motor. Hot glue this to the top of the cap

  5. Attach a small on/off switch in between the positive cable and the battery to control the robot. Twist 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 cover the twisted wires with electrical tape.

  6. Attach the battery clip to the battery and hot glue or tape the batter to the cap and you’re done.

–Instructions on attaching LED lights coming soon–