Lenore Edman and her husband, Windell Oskay, had wanted to make a robot out of a brush for some time. Visiting hardware stores, they pushed brooms, scrub brushes and wire brushes along the floor to ...

[Underling] sent in his bristlebot project that aims to put a new spin on controlling bristlebot movement. We have seen several attempts at bristlebot directional control in the past, but none of ...

Introduction Bristlebots are a fun and popular type of robot made from the head of a toothbrush, a small watch battery and a tiny vibrating motor like the kind found in electric toothbrushes. Although ...

As long as your toothbrush is sitting around unused and unloved, you might as well put it to good use with this DIY Bristlebot courtesy of the folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. All you need is ...

Robotic circuits are always complicated to build and involves a lot of money. How about using your toothbrush to make a robot of your own? Won’t it be fun? Read on and we’ll let you how to do it.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen much action on the bristlebot front, which is too bad. So we’re happy to see [Extreme Electronics]’s take on the classic introductory “robot”: the Black Line ...

WOODBINE – Young people in grades 6-12 can learn how to make a simple robot during a workshop at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 10 at the Woodbine Library, 800 Monroe Ave. A “bristlebot,” also known as a ...

In an upsetting -- though somehow not surprising -- turn of events, it appears that Scholastic and partner company Klutz have ripped off the work of two Makers, Windell and Lenore Oskay. The duo (also ...

It’s been a couple of years since the DIY version of the Bristlebot, and in that time it seems that this bizarre concept has gone mainstream. https://gizmodo.com ...

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