CrawlBot 1

Summary

My first encounter with robotics, in 10th grade.

This is a RC ‘robot’ made in my basement for a French competition. Each actuator (gripper, lever, both track motors) is controlled and powered by a controller box with a simple joystick-style switch and pushbuttons.

This was how they did it in the school’s robotics club before, and I didn’t know at the time what microcontrollers were.

We built another one using an Arduino the year after: Crawl-bot-2

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