The MoBot
| Team: | Ivana Stojadinovic, Cristian Ciucanu, Yenal Orman & Tobias Toft |
| Grade: | None |
| When: | Summer 2007 |
| Company: | None |
The MoBot’s name comes from the two words “Mother” and “Robot”. Basically the MoBot is an alarm clock with a picture of your mother. But it doesn’t stop here. The MoBot also features 128 MB of memory for mp3 files (USB connection) with your mothers voice, helping you to get up in the morning. If that isn’t enough, the MoBot will also start shooting foam discs into your room while it drives around yelling at you (with your mothers voice). In order to turn off the MoBot you have to get out of bed and collect the foam discs and put them back into the MoBot.
It all comes from a two-weeks summer course in Budapest arranged by the BEST organization (Board of European Students of Technology). The course had two titles; an official one and an unofficial. The unofficial title was “Pimp my Gadget” while the official one was “Physical computing”. The main topic of the course was to hack cheap toys and combine them in new ways to make new products with different functionalities. The course was taught by Adam Somlai-Fischer and Massimo Banzi and took place in Kitchen Budapest.
The heart of the MoBot was the Arduino board which controlled everything from relays to the disc-shooter and the mp3-player.