ArmBot

The idea

First I wanted to create a robot that can open my trash. But I had some problems with the button's bounce, so I decided to play with what I had.

With time and ideas, I finally decided to make a little, simply, but fun robotic arm with servos and lollipop sticks.

The ArmBot

The ArmBot posses a joystick to orient it, and three LEDs that shows the status of the arm: yellow => initialisation, green => in movement, red => in standby.

I made the structure with lollipops sticks, as you can see on those pictures:

Finally, I used the Arduino IDE to code the program. You can found it on my GitHub page (https://github.com/hugonator/trashbot). Use it as you want.

By the way, the name is trashbot because I didn't changed the name of the repository, and the Fritzing scheme isn't finished.

Improvements

I have some ideas of improvements, for example a better calibration of LEDs and servos.