Build Yourself a Sophisticated, 3D Printed Robot VacuumHigh on the list of thankless household tasks like mowing the lawn, doing the dishes, and taking care of laundry chores is vacuuming floors.  The monotonous and time-consuming activity of sucking up all the nasty detritus that collects on floors has inspired products like the Roomba, a not-very-inexpensive solution to the problem.Enter Jake Lee.Lee is a product and industrial designer from Taiwan, and at age 36, he’s about to welcome the birth of a son, hence the name of his cleaning robot project.  Lee says his son’s nickname, “Panda,” provided him a ready name for this interesting, 3D printed vacuum project, Panda – The Ultimate Cleaning Robot.He says it’s an an improved version of a previous attempt he made at designing and building a cleaning robot, and this one features more robust construction, air suction, a sweeper, and roller brush.The robot is able to randomly select a direction to move, and then it’s capable of detecting obstacles and sudden dropoffs.  

And don’t think taking on this project is a weekend chore as it required Lee nearly a full month to draft the mechanical layout, plan the electrical system, and square away the software.A couple of years ago, Lee had built a previous attempt, but due to its very small footprint and the requirement to have a connected power source such as PC to make it run, he wanted to take another shot at building something more autonomous.This latest version features a list of 3D printed parts such as a top and bottom housing, a mid housing, a pair of battery covers, a gear box cover, and a dust chamber. Add in a couple of 135 RPM gear motors to drive the wheels, a 1000 RPM motor to drive the roller and sweeper, a DC 3V motor for the vacuuming tasks and driving the fan blade, and an UNO board and eight batteries, and you have a rather complex device indeed.Lee says he designed the robot to fit within the dimensions of his MakerBot’s build area and used PRO_E to take on the 3D modeling tasks.He says that it took “an enormous amount of time to complete this project” but adds that he was pleased with the result.

You can check out his highly detailed Instructable here.Will you try building your own 3D printed robot vacuum cleaning following Jake Lee’s design? Tagged with: 3d printed products • 3d printed vacuum • 3d printed vacuum cleaner • instructables • vacuum cleanerupright vacuum cleaners made in usa Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Mechanical Projectvax or dyson vacuum cleaner Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is developed to make cleaning process easier especially for working people.eureka hand vacuum cleaners This Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is designed for specific area such as under beds. Robot Body is the mechanical part of the robot which contains wheels and vacuum In our project we use Pic18f4620 microcontroller with 4MH frequency.

In our project we used port C to control movement and speed of motors and we connect also sensors to port A for using ADC. Act as sensing component to the environment. For Vacuum Cleaner Robot, sensors are used to detect obstacles. We used three sensors,This is not just an article with everyday robots. This is an article that explore the best DIY Arduino projects for beginners and advanced users. If you’re already involved in a new Arduino projects, all of these should add more inspiration and more fun to your project.Over the years, the price of components and parts used in robotics decreased allowed us to experiment tons of new ideas at lower costs.All the projects explored in this article covers a wide range of applications in the robotics area. And because we need sensors, actuators, controllers and many other components and parts, I choose these Arduino projects carefully to include as much of each DIY area. All these projects include ultrasonic sensors, infrared sensors, wheels, tracks, Android smartphones, drones able to detect an obstacle in the air and autonomous control.

For a maker, any DIY project brings a big advantage. All these robots can be upgraded with new features or used as a base point for your custom project. Feel free to share with us your work, and if you feel confident, share your project with us using the contributors link. There is only one way to start building robots, and in this case you can start with a simple robot able to detect obstacles and change the path using a simple detecting system and the Arduino board. The project is a wheel based robot with an ultrasonic sensor attached in the front and programmed to detect any obstacle that may interfere with the path of the robot. The robot is powered by 6 AA batteries with a supply power between 4.8V and 6V.All the robotic parts can be purchased from the Funduino UNO Robotics Kit, but you can replace any of these components with custom parts. The ‘Balancing Robot’ is a project that operates under the same principle of the popular transportation system called Segway and with the primary purpose to teach you how to use the Kalman filter.

The Kalman filter is an algorithm that measure and produce estimation based on several parameters.The entire movement system is engineered to accelerate and decelerates the wheels to keep the robot in vertical position.I choose to add this project in this article due to its simplicity, because some components can be printed using a simple 3D printer, and the control can be wireless using a Bluetooth module.Based on Arduino Mega 2560, two servos and two wheels, the balancing robot is a powerful example how a little robot can be fun and can help you to get started in robotics. The name of Ferrari is entered in the field of robotic cars with an RC Car remote control toy transformed into an autonomous car controlled via Arduino board and a cheap Android smartphone. This project catches my attention due to the implementation way of the Android smartphone. Instead control the robotic car remote using the smartphone, in this project you can install the smartphone directly on the car to build a robot toy able to follow a face, even is a face printed on a paper.

The face detection application is based on the OpenCV library available in the OpenCV for Android SDK version 2.4.7.You can improve your electronics and programming skills using robotic kits, DIY robots, or a mix between these two methods by using a low-cost toy and transform it into a smart robot able to walk and detect objects. In this project is used the Attacknid Hexapod with improvements on the sensor and controller side.In this project you can find how to transform the Attacknid kit using simple components such as an Arduino Uno, Arduino motor shield and an ultrasonic sensor. This is another project based on the Arduino microcontroller and the Zumo Robot Kit. The kit is used due to amount of components available, and is transformed step by step into an autonomous robot engineered for maze-solver and space-mapper.The Zumo Robot Kit has a track-based chassis that stores the motors for tracks, sensors, the batteries, all the electronics, shields and the Arduino board. Using a cardboard, plastic, a lot of melting glue and innovative technique you can build at home a simple DIY floor vacuum robot based on the Arduino board and able to clean your room, or at least it try to clean your room.

The wheels can be built with a 3D printer and then connected by two small DC motors powered by a 5V battery pack. The designer share with us the files of printed components, components that can be upgraded with new dimensions and new features. A smartphone device becomes a powerful remote control tool for robots, and this project demonstrates once again how simple is to control a robot via Bluetooth using an Android smartphone and an application installed on the mobile device.The controller of the robot is an Arduino Uno board programmed to control the differential steering robot. If the Android device is already equipped with Bluetooth equipment, the robot has installed a JY-MCU Bluetooth module for wireless communication with the mobile device. The application has control for moving forward, reverse, rotate, or can stop the robot.The robot is a smart one since it can detect obstacles using the two ultrasonic sensors and can take decision if the user drives the robot into a wall for example.