sparkino
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Hello everybody! My name is Alessio, I'm italian and a new member!
I just recently purchased an Ultimate Wall-E robot of Thinkway, and my goal is to turn it into an autonomous robot, just like djsures did with his Wall-E. I wondered, as my model (Ultimate) is very large (about 16" tall) how can I make an internal system, so as to make it independent from an external PC on which to run the ARC? Should I insert a PC in Wall-E? If so, there is a very small system (such as a cubieboard) which can run Windows and the ARC? Any other suggestion is welcome.. I really want to make a robot that does not depend on an external PC...
PS: please, forgive my bad english...
here you go
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Ahhh... Sorry. Google. Ultimate wall-e dissect flickr
@hoolagen1, interesting link, thanks! Can you show how you have modified your Ultimate Wall-E?
Here you go... needed a redirect url to avoid the forums formatting due to the @ symbol in the url... Photos
I didn't realise these went for that much. I have a Wall-E that's waiting for an EZ-B, not 100% sure if it's this one or not but I think it is... I paid about £30 for it around a year ago.
I'm really tempted to start my Wall-E sooner than planned since it's not too difficult a job to do and is awesome when done. I prefer the toy conversions and smaller robots and there's a bit of a lack of them recently.
Thanks rich. And yeah. I haven't started mine yet. I finished my mini wall-e but have not started on the big wall-e.
Next project is the Hasbro r2. Then I'll have 2 bots on my resume. Kinda being a chicken, since it cist so much.
One last thing ill say about it. ultimate wall-e is 2 feet tall. hes huge. but....you cant really add a acer w3 tablet. there's a ton of room but not enough for the tablet.
once you add the ezv4 a large battery, motor control for wheels, plus motor control for stepper motor in the neck, plus a large servo and the "built in mechanism" that makes the wall-e "tilt forward and back up" when he moves....it doesnt leave enough space for the tablet.
what you can do is... install a slick way of inserting and removing an android phone in the the backpack or the front panel.
this way you can set up the master project as a mobile app. run in on the phone, and then insert the phone into the wall-e. boom! super mini computer.
@rich what do you think? (i ask because, well...you know.)
(ill post a link to you a youtube video of this kid that modified his wall-e to have a legit mini digital screen in the "battery panel " on the front side of the wall-e and he also has the front body panel open up to reveal the insides. )
You know what, I've hardly touched the Android version.
Provided the Android version can (eventually) run all controls that are on the project then yes that would work.
I need to spend about an hour messing around with the mobile version and seeing how much has been added to it since the first release (the only release I've installed).
Or you could build a nice case for the android and use it like a handheld remote, that could also work (provided it's in range).