clintgarr75
USA
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I just realized I have not yet identified myself to the EZ-Robot Community, I apologize. My name is Clint; I am an I.T. Professional and now an amateur Robotics. I have an Omnibot 2000 that my 9 year old son and I are working on to make it fully functional. I what it to have as much movement and personality I can give it, but aside from the color scheme, front panel, and eyes, I don't want to change it from stock looks. I appreciate all of your help so far and all of your help to come. Thank you
Goodday Clint! What sort of IT are you into? I'm a freelance mobile + applications engineer, nice to meet you here!
I am very good with hardware and networking, as well as Windows and Exchange Server. I work as an I.T. Manager at a Resort near Houston, Texas. I graduated college with a degree in History, but computers have always been my passion. After college I got certified in different I.T related areas and here I am now. I love Robotics and really feel that is where the future of computing is going. What area of mobile/ applications engineer are you in?
I live on the East Coast of Canada, and I have a few apps in the App Store with a few different clients. I'm best at XMPP chat integration and stuff like that, custom PHP development for WordPress sometimes, things like that. I actually have no education atall and get by on experience + portfolio alone - but that's fine, I do well enough :)
I've sold my MacBook Pro and I'm ordering a hexapod and humanoid tomorrow I think. Been really busy thinking of different things to code. . .
'hey robot, meet Douce' - me 'we are the borg, you will be assimilated, resistence is futile. Lower your shields and prepare to be boarded. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.' - robot
that's a good one. I also think I may code them to do a bunch of random things that would be useful to me. . and fun! Might buy a wifi / bluetooth stereo and have them play music for me etc. Also think I'll make them tell me jokes. And perform math magic tricks with people for entertainment value
What do you plan on getting your bots to do?
I'm also seriously thinking of different ways for them to interact - sumo wrestling comes to mind, so does creating 'herbavore' and 'carnivore' bots - not sure how the batteries work yet, but if it's possible to make bits that have solar panels and can charge the battery and then also have a method for the carnivores to drain battery power from each other + the herbavores, I might be able to create a whole ecosystem. I also had the thought of lasers + light receptors for fun battles. Capture the flag comes to mind too.