Live Robot Hack Session
6 Foot JD Live Hack.....Send in the Jets!
When: Fri Dec 20 2019 @ 7:30 PM (UTC)
Duration: 180 minutes
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6 Foot JD Live Hack (Part 2)
Astro Boy is still being benched while I work on an extraordinary project for EZ-Robot! It's a 6 Foot tall JD robot! This JD is for trade show installations and it's upper body and head will move around with camera, huge custom servos and a massive rgb 18 rgb eyes... all controlled by EZ-Builder. JD will run off of a 5V 20A power supply and will have giant servos like the inMoov. It is made out of Styrofoam.
This week we'll be working on the motors and electronics for the eyes!
Christmas Edition, Merry Christmas everyone!Join the live chat and add your comments, ideas, and suggestions!
Hey there Jer, so I did order 3 of those high powered 3 watt L.E.D.'s and the mini driver boards. Super bright white 2 of them and 1 multicolor for the effects on the Cylon Fore arm chrome armor, the 2 white ones will be used for gun flashes when the 2 guns pop out of the wrists. Hope they will be bright enough to see outside when it's sunny out. Thanks for the info on that last hack session, My Christmas present to me! ---- My last entry for 2019 before I go on Holliday to visit Friends and Family for Christmas, Let Synthiam the robot revolution continue...
Wouldn't it make more sense to use steppers and planetary gear for internals of the servo? Then make a scaled up default case with H-Bridge to hold it all. If you got the servo down, JD would be easy to scale up. Anyway fun project. Thanks
Thanks for the suggestion @flatwoodsdad
The idea was to keep the design as much like the regular scale JD as possible, to be able to use the standard JD ARC project. Unfortunately, using H-bridges + steppers wouldn’t allow us to use the auto-position control. The customer is not familiar with solutions outside of normal servo auto-position control.
How did the 6 foot JD go in Florida? Any pictures?
wow
so many questions
what servos?
power?
any videos?
WOW. That's so cool. Hope you realize how lucky you are to work someplace that lets you do such stuff. Please share any video of him in motion. Time to hit DARPA up for a billion dollar grant.
i was wondering why there where no live hacks.:)gently giant robot jd.very nice work. is that martha in the first pic with jeremie , if i may ask ?