1. Principles and practices¶

My final project¶

For my final project I would like to make a sensor operated bump-and-go car. But wit a difference. The traditional bump-and-go car has to bump against a wall or an object to change direction. Mine will be sensor operated. So it will not bump against an object but change directions at a certain distance from the object.
This toy car will be for playful people from 8 till 88

View from the side, although this looks to car’ish. I would like to give it a more abstract shape.

View at the bottom. This is how I think I should organize the driving, steering, power and electronics.

What do I have to research for this project?¶

• Material for the car, wheels, and axes
• Gearing from motor to ax
• Steering mechanism
• Servo motor for steering
• Micro USB rechargeable battery
• Electronics such as distance sensor

And off course all the machines to make it.

Other ideas¶

• A hydroponic system
• A lamp that rises out of a box when it gets dark
• A flip book machine