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Roller-Bot is a non-intelligent Light activated Robot built upon a small Paint Roller . The rollerbot is a design that exemplifies the concept of minimal-engineering and is a copyrighted design developed in 1999 , by Paul L. Discher , Director of Engineering Science Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri . The Roller-bot project employed 10 mechanical and electrical components to create a powered non-intelligent robot vehicle activated by a Flashlight or other a non-visible light source. Beside requiring no tools for final assembly this project only used 10 discrete components. The project employed a Rubber Band Drive Belt that transferred rotation to the body of a paint roller cover. Controlling and powering the motor was a photo-cell and a single transistor acting as a light activated switch which applied DC electrical power from an on-board 9v battery. Roller-Bot I was the first generation of the project followed by slight design improvements with Roller-Bot II 5 months later. Both projects were administrated in "make-and-take" publicity projects in which the "kits" were given away free to student participants on the campus of Washington University. REFERENCE |
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