{"id":115,"date":"2011-09-15T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T13:34:33","slug":"solar-hexbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Solar HexBug"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking online on how to build small solar bots. I came across this website mysolarbot.com<\/a>. It has lot of interesting ideas on how to convert small bugs and cars into solar bots. The solar engine thats used in the bots is based a 1381 voltage trigger <\/a>engine that releases power to the motors when the trigger voltage is reached. I decided to buy a hexbug<\/a> and a brainchild solar engine<\/a> to build my own. Unfortunately the solar engine came with a voltage trigger that activates at 4.5V, which was too high for the bug to walk forward so it kept reversing. I thought the\u00c2\u00a0whiskers sensor had gone bad. But after discussing it with a rep at mysolarbot.com, he explained that I needed a lower voltage trigger, around 2V-3V. I bought the triggers and able to replace it fairly easily and get it working.<\/p>\n

My next goal is to work on BEAM robots<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t