A Dip Chip Bristlebot

What can you do with a busted (or merely obsolete) chip? Well, you can always make a trivet or even chip bugs. But here's a new one: Alejandro Gonzalez found that you could make a BristleBot by bending the pins of the chip. Clever!

[Flickr photo set] [YouTube video -- blurry but you get the idea.]

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 16 2008 @ 07:06 PM PDT A Dip Chip Bristlebot
What if you bent the pins on one side in the opposing direction. You could make a spinning bristlebot.
Authored by: DexterEvilGenius on Saturday, February 13 2010 @ 02:04 AM PST A Dip Chip Bristlebot
I had that idea before 1 or 2 days but I see that you made one
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