{"id":9614,"date":"2014-11-10T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=9614"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:19:09","slug":"motion-sensing-pumpkin-vibrobot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/motion-sensing-pumpkin-vibrobot\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Sensing Pumpkin Vibrobot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanical Engineer and K-12 STEM educator, Ben Finio, has designed this kid-friendly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Motion-Activated-PumpkinBot\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>motion sensing pumpkin Bot<\/strong><\/a>, which could be a fun project to make for the next Halloween. The thing I liked the most about this PumpkinBot is its simplicity and microcontroller-free design. His motion-sensing bot uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor attached in front of the pumpkin to detect motion. Three toothbrush heads are glued underneath the PumpkinBot to give it a stable tripod. When a motion is sensed, it triggers the robot&#8217;s LED eyes and a DC motor attached on its back. A wine cork fixed to the motor shaft create vibrations that are strong enough to move the robot around. It works best on a flat and smooth surface. You can leave it on your porch and watch enjoying the PumpkinBot scaring trick-or-treaters as they approach to your door.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9615\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9615\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9615\" alt=\"Motion sensing pumpkin robot\" src=\"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pumpkinbot.jpg\" width=\"498\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motion sensing pumpkin robot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanical Engineer and K-12 STEM educator, Ben Finio, has designed this kid-friendly motion sensing pumpkin Bot, which could be a fun project to make for the next Halloween. The thing I liked the most about this PumpkinBot is its simplicity and microcontroller-free design. His motion-sensing bot uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor attached in front of the pumpkin to detect motion. Three toothbrush heads are glued underneath the PumpkinBot to give it a stable tripod. When a motion is sensed, it triggers the robot&#8217;s LED eyes and a DC motor attached on its back. A wine cork fixed to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,183],"tags":[989,145,1020],"class_list":["post-9614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robotics","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-motion-sensing","tag-pir-sensor","tag-pumpkin-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9617,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9614\/revisions\/9617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}