It’s a neat build, and surprisingly nimble for a $20 plastic hexapod robot. The smartphone app detects a user-selectable hue – in this case a little Android toy robot – and sends commands to the MSP430-powered motor control board over the headphone jack to move the legs. This time, instead of a few LEDs, turned to an Android smartphone running an OpenCV-based app. Previously, we’ve seen turn a Hexbug spider into a line following robot with a pair of IR LEDs and a drop-in replacement motor driver.
With a few extra parts, though, it can become a vastly more powerful robotics platform, as shows us with his experiments with a Hexbug and OpenCV.
The Hexbug Spider is a neat little robot toy available at just about any Target or Walmart for about $20.
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