The PlatypusBot is a TurtleBot3-inspired robot built from vacuum cleaner parts
Arduino Team — June 27th, 2025 We all love the immense convenience provided by robot vacuum cleaners, but what happens when they get too old to function? Rather than throwing it away, Milos Rasic from element14 Presents wanted to extract the often-expensive components and repurpose them into an entirely new robot, inspired by the TurtleBot3: the PlatypusBot. Rasic quickly got to work by disassembling the bot into its drive motors, pump, and several other small...