BugBot(BugBot)

A 4" long 6-legged radio controlled 'bug' was developed using only 'muscle wire' to move his legs. This was a challanging project mostly from mechanical and electrical design perspective but he is still 'cute' more or less. This is my oldest electro-mechanical bot special care has been taken to make it's actual components be symmetric so that BugBot is as much a work of 'art' as an interesting electronic tiny device where the image of a bug was a big part of the goal. Pic Microcontroller with it's digital and analog IO allows creators of electronic projects to make intellegent devices that are both low-power as well as low-cost. The 'Bot' devices described have been developed using the 'SourceBoost IDE' which I cannot say enough good things about. Projects typically use recent models of the Microchip Pic Microcontrollers that I have found to be full featured, energy efficient, and very low cost.