Friday, June 4, 2010

Hex Bug


Hello people. During Memorial Day, I went camping on a boyscout trip. One kid from another troop was selling these toys to sponsor his robotics team. These toys are called Hex Bugs. Hex Bugs are these robotic ants that travel on wheels with a flip of a switch, but also demonstrate Newtonian Laws. Newton one said, "For every action, there is an oposite and equal reaction." Well, on the robotic bugs, there are sensors on the antennae and some wire in the back so that if the sensors come in contact with something, like a hand, the bug's direction will reverse. These toys are really neat, and I would be glad to share it with our class.


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