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Meet Squeegee , The Flooring Mopping Robot , Modified Radioshack Robie Jr

This is a simple project that hopefully I wont over complicate. Since he Squeegee needs to get as close to furniture and the toilet and bathtub as possible this my be a challenge. After all we spend most our time trying to get our robots to avoid the objects in the room. Im giving new life to a radioshack robie jr rc controlled robot.

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#121  

I filled the holes and wet sanded the front of the torso.... now all the painted parts of the robot are in the oven for an hour.

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#122  

I did a test fit and found the battery is in plain view so I painted the bottom half to help clean up the look.

#124  

Because I cut up the base so much and reglued it , the base warped a bit. I will cut the battery box off the spare and move the caster bearing over so it is a farely simple fix.

#125  

I brought him to work to brain storm how to connect a sponge to tohe bottom and the microfiber cloth.

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#126  

He looks awesome Josh! What about velcro for the sponge?

#127  

Because so far ive used velcro for everything else right? Lol the hard part would be sewing the velcro pad to the spong and shammy which I would sew by hand. Im considering gluing magnets inside the base and the shammy and let magnets do their thing.

#128  

Ooooh tiny idea here but I have 4 unused roomba brush motors and gearboxs. Maybe I could install one or two and just put the brush mounting screw through a washer and screw it directly to the gearbox. Then maybe it would having a spinning / scrubbing action.