New York, NY

2018

Inspired by an idea presented in a biomedical journal, I designed and built a low-cost, open source version of this unique robot. Its bio-inspired mechanism uses the waves generated by a servo-driven helix to get around. An Adafruit board controls the behavior of this bot, which can detect when it bumps into things and use a simple algorithm to navigate around. 

Design files, instructions, and BOM available on Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2850763