Weekend Project: How to Make a Mousebot

[@SamIves85]

*takes Herbie outside* "Herbie NO! Not in the road! That's a TRUCK!" *crunch*

[@danzinnyman]

this guys great been watching all his stuff for the last hour of my workday

[@CockroachMunchingKrabbyPatty]

omfg. imagine if you were to put it in a dark room, with a discoball, and a strobe light focused on the discoball. Herbie would go insane~!

[@ishigamiyu1991]

Those were the golden days

[@HulkJr100]

lol i like the one he hold up first herbie didn't exactly make me smile but the other one did roomba: please put me down KipKay: O_O

[@yzrocky6015]

0:19 why is the roomba says " please put me down"

[@thehalokiller6676]

lol PLEASE PUT ME DOWN! "oh uh ok uhh this week we will make a"

[@joshrich07]

I can't see one of those without thinking of Parks and Recreation DJ RUMBA!

[@RashedAlremeithi5]

Man if i got one of this and played with it i'll just ROFL!! This is really cool !!

[@schtolteheim]

"Please put me down!" He should have obeyed its wish by saying "you stupid machine!"

[@FcoSaidHdezPacheco1987]

no it's not to survive, because it does not get power from light source, it does by a 9 volt battery, light its just the complementary part

[@benjagueno]

"uhmmm.. dont care" i laughed a lot witht that!

[@jerotheBIG]

herbie is the 11# most popular product in the makershed

[@Bergy_CS]

its like a dog with a laser pointer! only without the dog

[@fabie2]

Hehe me too, I actually smiled at the moment you said I did:Z

[@jaktheslasher]

they al laughed when i made my army of light sensing herbies outside in L.A. well.. lets just say if they ever step into my garage or dark room they will be victim to herbies wrath MUAHAHAHH

[@coondogtheman]

my cat would love this, does it work with a laser pointer? id love to have one of these.

[@MrHack4never]

''please put me down'' LOL

[@Cobra51607]

lmao, put this in the kitchen or bathroom in the middle of the night on the floor...and when someone walks in and flips the light on, it will scare the hell out of them, lol

[@SpreadiesInSpace]

That could prove fatal... for the cat. The next thing u know is that the cat died all because he has a heart attack, seeing a mouse that follows him everywhere! LOL!!!

[@UBRidin]

IF you put him in the sunlight he will spin in circles

[@tehleper]

nothing, the bot has two sensors on either side of it's face, like eyes, and the relay compares how much light is being picked up by both, and goes towards the stronger.

[@Super32Nova]

SWEET that has got to be a great project :) thanks for posting

[@spunkflunk]

i want that cleaning robat !

[@91monkeyd]

awesome!!!! Do they pay you to make these videos?

[@coondogtheman]

KipKay will Herbie chase a laser pointer like some dogs and cats do lol?

[@Zangizo]

No, it just wouldn't move. Why would it explode?

[@IIGrayfoxII]

paint the case black & scare the wife LOL

[@TVboy76]

Can it be modified or fit with a camera and special weaponry to hunt down real mice?

[@richardjaar]

soo cool !

[@xxn00berxx]

pretty cool kipay!

[@kreshnik9867]

1. copy & paste 2. post on 2 diff vids 3. hold your breath 4. look at ur hands

[@hotguyx1]

im pretty sure its not the only light the mouse will see in the distance of 200 feet

[@go3002]

awesome toy for young ppl

[@sablesoul]

7 bucks for the parts. 30 bucks so you don't have to buy random shit just to get the actual parts you need. Convenience comes at a price.

[@circuitblooper]

*Doo-daa-dee-doo-* Put me down. "Okay..."

[@TheUploader1]

HAHAHA that was so cute ^^

[@melonmasta]

can u only get all this stuff in america? like the make magazines and all the stuff to build it with?

[@toamaori]

i wonder if it would work with a laser pointer :)

[@yasoof971]

videos watched: all projects made: 0

[@flubberdubbe]

i want to make one but i dont have any of the parts and i dont have a maker shed near me

[@Smieouw]

A cuppel of millions...

[@kkatsa]

this is what i want to know too XD same brain man...same brain :)

[@sstalder5]

if thats true, it would be so awesome to modify an led flashlight with IR leds so nobody could tell how your controlling it

[@tzeimet]

Does it do a donut if you keep the light in the same place

[@kirbs0001]

This little robot works by detecting light levels via two Light Dependent Resistors (eyes). Increasing the level of light on one eye increases that eye's resistance, causing the wheel on that side to turn slower and thus the robot turns towards the light. if light levels are roughly equal on both eyes, the robot will move roughly forward, otherwise, it will move towards the more intense area of light.

[@SrivatsanVenkatesh]

"Please put me down" LOL

[@fireraisr]

Meh, so I don't know you. If you are watching these videos you are at least mildly interested in engineering because thats what they are. You should expect to pay something for it, I mean it is audio transferred on a laser signal that we are talking about here. For that matter there are plenty of low cost projects from MAKE. Don't go complaining just because the one you wanted to do costs $99+.

[@MikeTheAnnoying]

The robot Brie made was solar powered, not light seeking. It moved significantly more slowly because it would sit in the sun until it had enough energy to move, and then make a half second movement and half to stop. It automatically moved toward light because of its diode's positioning. Herbie, on the other hand, is powered by a nine volt, as as such is a pretty regular car-like robot. It just has the diodes that make it follow light.

[@ramydaghstani]

it's true though. They have gradually turned into an appliance store instead of the humble hobby shop they used to be. They should at least make specialty "radioshack" stores for hobbyists. They could call them invention labs instead of just making up shallow websites that take advantage of the web2.0 social fad. Also, in canada, all the radioshack stores were bought and renamed "La Source" which is bawls because they only stock NexXtech when it comes to electronic/micro-electronic equipment.

[@DancingSpiderman]

@Sh4k4lul Oh, noooooo... the question itself IS a prediction of fail... Destined to spend the rest of their life playing with preassembled toys, like Michael Richard's "Battle Boy" character from the TV show Fridays

[@grendelee]

I like whiskers. You can see how useful they are when you make things, they work exactly how they do in animals. I remember i was trying to program a car boss in a video game, i made sensor lines in front of it to sense your car so it can chase you, they were just like whiskers. Kinda interesting, parallel invention

[@electrodud]

Hey I just build a Herbie...when I switch it on in the dark the motors run fast CONSTANTLY, they never stop. Are they supposed to do that or only when I switch on the flashlight for him to follow? Anybody out there know this answer??

[@dayne8705]

lol, i think i did by accident. meant to hit "Reply" but the option wasnt there because i had posted too many comments, so i accidentally hit the spam button. And youtube doesnt ask any questions, it just does it without thinking twice.

[@wlwwl]

I've never seen red hot solder, have you? :>

[@doggins]

@TheHazzabigun American English pronounces it as sodder while British English pronounces it as solder. It's not a pronunciation error, just the way we say it.

[@DancingSpiderman]

@ PokemonmasterCJ Sing it loud, sing it proud... "Trog-dor... The Bur-ni-nay-torrrr! Trogdor!! Trogdor!!" Homestar Runner cartoons are cool

[@warsteve01]

Lol I kinda want one of those.

[@whamfan87]

I just made a system like this for a small cyanobacteria bioreactor. This is a great way to get your reactor to "follow" the sun through a greenhouse roof. Thanks for the post!

[@ArifRahmanMY]

he said he had trouble filming because he had to chase herby... hmm i thought herby is a light follower... so herby should be chasing him instead!

[@Crystalsnowflake136]

i want herbi AND I WANT HIM NOW

[@Vekette]

dude i can do this with a laser pointer and my dog and i have 4 or 5 different laser pointers oh and you cant step on a dog and completly destroy it unlike a dog.... kinda

[@NaturallySelected]

lol......u silly.....its called slang, i use it because its easier than typing in full like i have just done ... duh? im talkin bout pronunciation, not slang

[@killwayne]

make a herbie-seeking cat, which chases the mouses frequence or something

[@MikeTheAnnoying]

Sorry reply didn't work. The wall of text below was in response to SpifyKid7727's comment: "The one that Brie made was way cooler and easyr to make"

[@evanhuffaker1727]

you should tape a flash light to the mouse

[@varitomi998]

lol

[@evanhuffaker1727]

it should go in a strait line

[@NinjaOfWar]

It seemed to work really well up until the very last second, and I think that was slo-mo, so he just didn't film long enough to see you react.

[@jimstermy]

you should let him chase a laser

[@bestamerica]

why NO closed captioned in here video,,, put it on closed captioned in here video,,, why china make this mousebot vaccuum

[@Gamingoodz]

Thats actually pretty cool, I wonder how much the kit cost though might bo to much to be worth it. I think my cat would love that thing

[@ubamilitary]

$40.00 for that damn mouse is tottaly a rip off. I would but it if they would lower the fucking REALISTIC price to about 7 dollars.

[@living69nightmare]

so you could put the light sensors on an rc car at each side and re wire the motor so it will follow a flash light? project accepted.

[@neillpaddy]

Step 1:Hold your breath Step 2:go to another video Step 3: add this comment Step 4:did you make it if you didi you are a good kisser

[@tehleper]

my understanding was it knows when to turn on and off the power to which wheels based on what's coming in from the light sensors.

[@jaggernutox]

i find it fucked up that we have so much gun tech BUT TO CREATE A ROBOT HTAT DO ALL YOU HOOUSE WORK NO THATS TO HARD TO MAKE

[@channalDEyoungKEET]

ok!! OK allright eveon can call you neard but YOU ARE THE FREAKING MAN...i dont give wat othere ppl say YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!

[@NaturallySelected]

lol?...why have you went from the original subject of pronunciation, to slang, and then to spelling? ....you make no sense...

[@PetruV]

@nutcake95 that can be fixed by inverting the polaryty of the movin motor

[@benjamintg00]

thats soo cool!!i want oneXD

[@koflropter]

to the laser shop, away!!!

[@lisn92]

you shud of put a little solar pannel on top of the body so that it would be able to run off like one battery forever

[@Doppleganger86]

do you have circuit schematic for this? and parts..cause I want to make myself without buying those mousebot kit..

[@istephan007]

i REALLY wish i could make this but i dont know how to sodor and dont own sodor gun or what ever its called

[@joshporter4606]

1.-copy and paste 2.-paste it in 2 different videos 3.. hold breath for 10 secs 4.- look at your hand

[@TheGreenDuck3000]

what suks about this is that its only from that mag wich i cnt be asked to pay 4

[@coondogtheman]

this little gadget is awesome i want one id freak out my cat lol

[@stevimated]

if i shine a flashlight onto my ceiling will it climb the wall and end up on the ceiling?

[@KefkeWren]

Oh joy...it's another advertisement disguised as a DIY guide. Kits aren't projects they're PRODUCTS.

[@Twisted86]

This would be great for cats. Imagine at those speeds how tuckered out they would be in 20-30 mins.

[@GarrettCrosgrove]

Why is my "Herbie the Mousebot" not following the light when I checked everything twice.

[@TreeDonkey992]

i can't help but think of that Simpson episode where Lisa gets those shoes for her tap dancing.

[@Bigrignohio]

I wonder if this kit can be reworked into a light AVOIDING mouse (sort of like the real thing).

[@rinalin]

my cat would go ape shit if i built this thing

[@HardcorePS3gamers]

my school has one of these in tech ed if you take that station you get one to make, its not that fast though, and it dosnt look anything like that

[@20EsOfficial]

Lol KipKay; Like this roomba :Roomba: Please Put Me Down KipKay: oh humim okay

[@helloworldstein]

Can you add mini solar panels on its back so it goes into the light to recharge/power itself?

[@ramiboy99]

hahhhahaahahahha i just lol'd at the thought of what might happen if you turn the lights on.

[@crawfish888]

my friend built something like that but it had 2 legs and flipped itself towards the light.

[@ZeceFackler]

lol if you hook it up wrong it would be a cockroach bot... turn the lights on and it runs off

[@ubamilitary]

No. it's 5 - 10 bucks for convenience. Overpriced. Stop sticking up for greedy people