Bionic Hamster

How well can a hamster vacuum a room? The Create offered a great platform for implementing this silly idea. The hamster controls the robot by running in the ball in whatever direction he/she likes. The ball is supported on three rollers and an optical sensor measures which way and how fast the ball is spinning. Those values are fed into a microprocessor that controls the drive wheels to make the robot mimic the motion of the ball.

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Science & Technology

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• create
• irobot
• robot
• hamster
• hampster
• science
• math
• technology
• engineering

[l1fton3]

@bunny3451 What's terrible about it? Hamster balls like the one it is running on are commonly used for exercise. He's not doing anything uncommon by putting it in the ball, he's actually helping it get exercise. The only difference is, opposed to the hamster rolling the ball on top of his carpet, it's rolling it on top of the vacuum. :D it's awesome, good exercise for the hamster and a clean carpet lol

[1xXitachiXx1]

what if we had cars like this?

[Deathpool35]

@louistubemk I said "even" more

[louistubemk]

@Deathpool35 scew you!!

[livingwastland]

hahaha that is epic

[mugoiusagi]

@lalaluvtech FYI, they do make those. I want one too!

[lalaluvtech]

I wish I had a giant human ball to run around in, that'd be awesome!

[realisticHomeboy]

@l1fton3 The fact that it's commonly used, does not in any way mean it's not cruel. Surely this is no more or less cruel than the common use of a hamster ball, but the common use of a hamster ball is also questionable.

[freshburritos]

hey guess what....  hamsters can move in hamster balls now

[higurashi9]

@Mropticalgreen its not lik he can get out of a regular ball if hes tired

ur only supposed to let it in for 15 mins

[Mropticalgreen]

@higurashi9 yea but, he can't leave the ball if he gets tired