[Ben Finio] designed this project as a way to get kids interested in learning about science and engineering. Is it bad that we just want to build one of our own? It’s a light following bristlebot ...

Lenore Edman and her husband, Windell Oskay, had wanted to make a robot out of a brush for some time. Visiting hardware stores, they pushed brooms, scrub brushes and wire brushes along the floor to ...

Introduction Bristlebots are a fun and popular type of robot made from the head of a toothbrush, a small watch battery and a tiny vibrating motor like the kind found in electric toothbrushes. Although ...

This large bristlebot has no prolem steering itself by shifting its weight. It’s easy enough to watch the video after the break and see how this works. But there’s still the same air of “I can’t ...

Robotic circuits are always complicated to build and involves a lot of money. How about using your toothbrush to make a robot of your own? Won’t it be fun? Read on and we’ll let you how to do it.

In an upsetting -- though somehow not surprising -- turn of events, it appears that Scholastic and partner company Klutz have ripped off the work of two Makers, Windell and Lenore Oskay. The duo (also ...

As long as your toothbrush is sitting around unused and unloved, you might as well put it to good use with this DIY Bristlebot courtesy of the folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. All you need is ...

It’s been a couple of years since the DIY version of the Bristlebot, and in that time it seems that this bizarre concept has gone mainstream. https://gizmodo.com ...

WOODBINE – Young people in grades 6-12 can learn how to make a simple robot during a workshop at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 10 at the Woodbine Library, 800 Monroe Ave. A “bristlebot,” also known as a ...

When it comes to whimsy, there's no doubt that the concept of a "bristlebot," a combination robot and toothbrush, is dripping with it. But there's little whimsy going on right now over a controversy ...