Xbox Robot

Posted on 04. Dec, 2011 by admin in Xbox Mods


Here is the result of a Metal detecting Robot that I’m built that is fittingly named: “X-marks-the-Bot” or “Xbot” for small. It’s made out of a broken original Xbox I bought from a pawn shop for $15 and a Radio Shack Metal detector I picked up at a garage sale for $5. The primary objective of the Xbot is to cruise around looking for metal then stop and blink when it finds some. I sought after it to be able to function outside so I used geared motors (high torque, low RPM) with some monster truck wheels on it. I placed some high wattage, low resistance Sand Stone Resistors on the Arduino Shield for some contemporary sensing for the motors, that way if the front bump sensor didn’t activate then the bot would still be able to sense that it’s blocked. I entered this robot in the Arts & innovation category in the 2010 Western Canadian Robot Games and it tied for first house for Technical Merit (Best engineered). Specs: Microcontroller: Freeduino SB [Atmega 328] with 16 MHz Xtal from Solarbotics Microcontroller Shield: Arduino Protoshield kit from Sparkfun Microcontroller Battery: 2 X 3.7V 1000mAh LiPo from Princess Auto Motorcontrollers: 4 X TA8428K – 1.5A Single H-Bridge from Toshiba Photocopiers Motorcontroller Battery: 4 X 3.7V Ultrafire 18650 LiPo from Deal Extreme Metal Detector: Micronta 3001 from Radio Shack Motors: 2 X 18 rpm, 23.5VDC Buehler Gearhead motors & 2 X ??? rpm, 12VDC Gearhead motors all from Princess Auto. Wheels: Mighty Mo’s from toy truck at a thrift store Hubs: made …
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22 Responses to “Xbox Robot”

  1. sk8rj10

    04. Dec, 2011

    @alexdevries420Thanks, and thx for letting me know that my vid was featured! So it turns out that it’s just a push truck by Playskool called Mighty Mo.

  2. alexdevries420

    04. Dec, 2011

    just seen it on dailyplanet excellent job whats the name of the rc truck mighty
    ?

  3. quadrant2005

    04. Dec, 2011

    Hi Guys this is cool but maybe the video should be called Xbox Case Robot, as i found this video when searching to find a Xbox Linux Robot, A Xbox running Linux to run a robot. Cool though guys…

  4. sk8rj10

    04. Dec, 2011

    @largedoubledouble2 Thanks for the positive feedback! Alright your wish is my command, specs are now posted in the description.

  5. largedoubledouble2

    04. Dec, 2011

    like to get the specs on that thing, fantastic jobs guys.

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