Cell Phone Chassis/Battery

[zephyrmancer]

Hey all, new user here =)

I've been delving into robotics for a few years now. Started out with some fun BEAM projects, made a bunch, then progressed to using Basic Stamp. Anyhow, I'm currently designing a Robot, nothing special, just basically a Light Follower. However, this is the first robot I've designed. I've made plenty, but all from schematics.

I have a good idea as to how it will work, but I had a pretty specific question; has anyone used a cell phone as a chassis or used a cell phone battery in a robot? This phone I have, my old one, is a Cingular Samsung something the rather. I always liked this phone because of it's enormous charge. Seemed to go on forever =P I don't really know it's amperage, but it dishes out 3.7 volts.

What you guys think? Plausible? Or would the voltage be too little?

[Steve Joblin]

3.7 volts is not a lot for a motor... I think that is where you will run into problems..

[zephyrmancer]

Yeah, I've been running some tests and I think I'll need two batteries ='( It runs the motors I'm using, but very weakly. Looking at running two of them together =P That voltage will do well!

[Admin]

A cell phone sounds like a neat idea, and people have asked about it many times before (search for more info), but in reality using a cell phone is a fairly bad idea . . .

Using a microcontroller designed for the job would be much easier and have many more options/features available.

[izua]

some of the gearboxes w/ motor from pololu (and esspecially the tape player motors) work very well on 3V.