Terrible Cardboard Nodebots

Robots! Made of cardboard! Programmed with node.js!

How'd they turn out? Pretty terrible.

Featured in this Daily Dot article

Build your own

Gather these things

• Cardboard
• Zip ties
• Tape or something
• An Arduino Uno
• A servo or something (here's one)
• Something that cuts, like a knife or broken bottle maybe
• A computer that can run node.js (like a laptop)

Do these things

0. Install node.js on your computer

1. Install the Arduino IDE

2. plug in the Arduino

3. Open the Arduino IDE

4. Go to examples -> Firmata -> Standard Firmata

5. Program your Arduino with Standard Firmata

6. Build your awesome robot

7. Make your servo and Arduino plug together like this

   

8. Run this in your terminal to install the one dependency

   $ npm install johnny-five

9. Run the robot robot

   $ node terrible-robot.js