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 If you live in New Zealand and own a swimming pool, you might have
noticed a large presence of floating bugs in your pool after the recent
rain. My children and I designed a floating robot to combat these bugs
in recent weeks.
The
robot, called SPIT (Swimming Pool Insect Terminator) is a special self
powered autonamous floating robot that locates and destroys small
clusters of bugs that float on the top of swimming pools.
We used
LEGO MINDSTORMS to build this. LEGO TECHNIC wheels are used as floats.
The only non TECHNIC part that was used in this project is a can of
inspect spray.
The robot uses the light sensor to detect the presence of insect
cluster while the Ultrasonic sensor is used to avoid bumping into the
side of the pool by telling the steering motor to turn. When the Light
sensor detects a cluster of bugs it tells a motor to push the button on
a can of Insect spray. Another motor is used to power the SPIT forward.
This is probably one of the hardest robots to design /
construct and test as the water can damage the electronics very
easilly. But we did it in the end and it actually worked!
You can buy the mindstorms unit from us click here
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