Photovores
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    Aquatic robots: Near the surface they behave like Photovores, and submerge whenever the Solar-Engine triggers. Here is footage of a dive, filmed in India 1997.
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    Third generation Aquatic robot.
    Made from 4 inch ABS pipe.
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    This guy lives on a speaker by my front window. The window has a southern exposure and the bot happily moves from east to west during the day.
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    As you can see I modified a photopopper circuit board. I used the front-end of the photopopper and fed the outputs into an H-bridge.
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    It also picks up on the reading lamp from across the room for some night activity as well.
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    Six-Axis Symet. Free-from 1381 SE. I used 6-1000uF caps around the motor. It has enough weight to hold its own in a photovore mosh-pit.
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    The underbelly. These pancake motors make great symets because of their low-profile.
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    Mouse: The smallest SolarRoller I ever built. (ca. 1995)