Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Beer2D2
Home: California, United States
Beer2D2 is a Homebrewed Robot built using a 5 Liter Heineken mini beer Keg. He was originally built in 2010 for RoboGames. He is now on a second rebuild. The Robot uses 4 drive train motors (Hacked Servos) two Vantec rdfr motor speed controllers a 2.4 Ghz Radio control for basic maneuvering. He also runs in Autonomus Mode using a Huskylens Video camera and an Arduino. He has a 15 Watt Stereo sound system a Bluetooth Audio reciever. A Color Organ that blinks Leds to the Audio signals. He has 15 sensors read by an a second Arduino that Talks to a Android Phone through another Bluetooth connection and a custom app using Voice Recognition and Text to Speech. He's basically a Talking Tricorder and entertainment Robot But that's not all he even has a brand new Trailer
Maker
Steven Nelson
Electronics, Computer programing, Mechanical repair Tech. A Tinker a Putterer a Fixer of broken things.
What Inspired You to Make This?
I started building Robots for Robotic Combat like at RoboGames. Then at the Maker Faire I got interested in Microcontrollers like the Arduino. So I combined my interests and have built using all of this knowlege for many years now.
