The Hull Pixelbot is a little robot that was born in Hull in the UK.

It carries pixels, so it is a pixelbot. It is designed to be simple to build, fun to play with and, above all, cheap to make. The chassis is made from 3D printed parts and the electronics and motors needed to get a robot up and running can be purchased for less than 15 pounds.

You can use it anywhere you need a tiny, mobile, pixel. It’s a great way to explore programing and robotics.

It uses two processors. The Arduino based motor controller provides autonomous behaviours via a built-in scripting language. Scripts can be stored within the Arduino and execute directly on it. We've added an esp8266 to provide network connectivity and cloud based software for a variety of control options. All the designs and software are Open Source on GitHub