#fuzzbot

Jenny Wakeman: He stole that cursed medallion and when I asked him to put it back because it has caused us nothing but problems, he said "what chu gunna do? Drop me into a cactus patch?" so I did!

Danny Phantom: You dropped him 3 stories..

Jenny Wakeman: Cats are supposed to land on there feet!

Danny Phantom: A cat costume doesn't make someone a cat!

Jenny Wakeman: Clearly! Did you see how he landed? He had at least 12 different ways to avoid the patch and he chose to go face first!

Manny Rivera (covered in cactus needles #zero regrets): Phantom, can I ask you something?

Danny Phantom: Is it about helping you return that STUPID cursed medallion?

Manny Rivera: ... Noo???

Danny Phantom: JENNY! ... Why aren't you doing something to help him?

Jenny Wakeman: Because I wholeheartedly support Team Goose!

El Tigre: YOU DON'T HAVE A HEART!

Jenny Wakeman: Also I just got a paint job and don't want to be picking feathers out of my gears for a week. I won't stop you from taking a crack at it though!

Goose: *honk intensifies*

Danny Phantom: ...

El Tigre: Danny?

Danny Phantom: ...

El Tigre: Mi Amor? Beautiful Angel?

Danny Phantom: ...

El Tigre: ...

Danny Phantom: I'll spread your ashes somewhere illegal.

Goose: *empowered honking*

Manny Rivera: Love you! Have Fun!

Jenny Wakeman: Grab some extra coolant on your way back! Jimmy says we're out.

Danny Fenton: *leaves*

Manny Rivera: ... sooooo... still mad about me ruining your buff and scratching up your new paint job?

Jenny Wakeman: 😠

Manny Rivera: ... wanna make out?

Jenny Wakeman: You're the worst.

Manny Rivera: Dont worry, I made sure to use top notch security! She'll never get past it!

Jenny Wakeman: *staring at an "I am not a robot" prompt*

Jenny Wakeman: *completes the prompt and begins viewing the chat logs*

Introducing the FuzzBot

Twelve-year-old maker Quin already has a company of his own–Qtechknow. He founded a hackerspace in his garage on California’s Central Coast. He helps teach Arduino classes for kids and adults. And he developed the “gas cap,” a baseball hat that detects human methane emissions. (What 12-year-old wouldn’t want that?) And now he’s created the FuzzBot, a cool little robot that not only turns on a dime to avoid obstacles, it helps his mom out by dragging a dust cloth as it makes its rounds.

To build the bot, Quin used the Pololu ZumoBot Chassis Kit for Arduino, an Arduino Leonardo, a pan/tilt small servo, and a Parallax Ping Ultrasonic Distance Sensor. He used wire to attach the servo to the chassis and hot glue to secure the Ping sensor to the top of the servo. He programmed most of the code himself using the Arduino IDE, the ZumoBot library, and the Ping library for Arduino.