Photovore
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photovore family
These are some of the photovores that I build
at TRI in the month
of Jan 2007. The idea was to create a large family of these
photovores to be displayed at IIT's annual Techfest.
The design is based around a couple of very simple circuits.
To add different character to each photovore, I played around
with colored heat shrink tubes, tapes and medium gauge copper
wires.
The
first design is based around the popular Bicore
and uses smd components to keep the size to its minimum. All
of them use a set of 4 AAA NiMh batteries for power. The circuit
was fabricated out of thin glass-epoxy PCBs; infact the PCBs
were so thin that they could be easily cut with a normal pair
of scissors. This proved very beneficial since their shape
was rather unusual, with acute angles, curves and slots.
| 
This
one uses smd components |
It's
the quickest of them all |
A
very early prototype (a simple tutorial to build this
little monster can be found
here) |
A
not so shinny free-forming (oxidized over a period of
2 months) |
| 
Photovore
with a 'tale-light' |
The
wiggling tail light is really cute to watch |
| 
My
colleague Anand's creation (PhotoPhobic) |
The
PCB cutout adds to its aggressive character |
| 
A
blue scorpion variation with tactile sensor |
The
tactile sensor |
| 
In
red |
Another
variation (PhotoPhobic) |
