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3D Printed Robots on YouMagine

In addition to Scrufie the adorable obstacle avoidance bot & the ELF AR Drone there are lots of other cool robots on YouMagine. Below we have a selection for you.

AFJay's Robot Chassis

AFJay’s Robot Chassis

Community Member AFJay made a low cost robot chassis in Blender. “This design seeks to minimize the parts count of a 3D printed robot chassis. All of the hardware for the chassis costs less than $10.”

3D Printed ROV Tether floats

3D Printed ROV Tether floats

AndrewThaler made tether floats for the OpenROV, a project to make an open source under water vehicle. These printed floats help keep your ROV’s tether clear from the sea floor.

Branez made Geometridae an interesting robot that pushes itself along.

3D printed MiniSkyBot wheels

3D printed MiniSkyBot wheels

Robotics researcher ObiJuan made wheels for the MiniSkyBot robot.

QueMeMojo is a lovely little bot that detects water.

pan tilt bot

Pan Tilt bot

Aleks made 3D printed pan tilt brackets for the Pololu Sumo Chassis.

Scrufie the adorable obstacle avoidance robot on YouMagine

Scrufie the adorable Arduino powered ultrasonic sensor obstacle avoidance robot

Scrufie the adorable Arduino powered ultrasonic sensor obstacle avoidance robot

In honor of our ELF VR Drone contest where you can win your own drone, I checked out some of the awesome robots on YouMagine. Rtheiss’ S.C.R.U.-F.E. is a “Simple C++ Robot with Ultrasonic-sensor” is a maze avoidance robot got printed when his, “two year old daughter fell in love with an old ultrasonic robot that I built in elementary school twenty five years ago.  It’s missing parts and no longer works, but she has treated it with love since she was one year old.” “For her third birthday, I set out to make a sub $50 Robot with easily replaceable parts.”

Scrufie the adorable Arduino powered ultrasonic sensor obstacle avoidance robot, side view

Scrufie the adorable Arduino powered ultrasonic sensor obstacle avoidance robot, side view

“My daughter adores this Robot.  She named him Scrufie”  Rtheiss is a teacher and hopes that this great Arduino powered bot will help his school learn “C++ coding/programming and Robotics.” “The print time is about an hour for all five parts, requires 7 soldered connections (beginner level) and takes about 2 hours for a beginner to assemble.”

Scrufie looks sad sometimes

Scrufie looks sad sometimes

A lovely story and a great inexpensive bot for education! You can download the parts and look at the Bill of Materials here for this $50 bot.