put put i have 5 of the WOWEE ROBOTS i-sobot,robosapien and elvis and others,then have 2 very large robots ,one adding arms to it and all have AI SOFTWARE CALLED LEAF ,has emotions,face recognition,full face emotions and lot more,maybe 30 or more toy robots to hack,plus AR PARROT DRONE ,ROVIO ,SPC-101C ,HEATHKIT HERO ROBOT,A FEW PALM CONTROL CAR ROBOT,SEEKER 3 i design my next major robot in a few months is 1 of these 3 ,whitebox 914 $5400 or COREBOT $4400 or hanson robot at $45000 ,hanson is mainly what i want and have the money to buy it,havent yet piick witch one first to buy,i was one of the bidders on the real JOHNNY FIVE ROBOT a few years ago when on ebay ,almost got it,sold for $100000,my last bid was $68000,i love very very high tech advance robots as you can see,but also love hacking too,main reason i like EZB board very small pcb ,lots of functions,another one is TURTLEBOT by willow garage,but my design,plus few other robots others design,i like trying different robot designs of all types another build it full size full detail and working JOHNNY FIVE my favorate of all robots ,like R2-D2 type input-inc getting plans ready soon and have some parts ready SPC-101C is a great robot hard to find and $3000 from japan,got it at $1000 great deal

also if you have the wowwee robots there is a program somebody made and cheap EEG MIND control headset called EPOC HEADSET $300 i order one and have the software for it and now has ROVIO support and I-CYBIE is a little like SONY AIBO ROBOTDOG by sony is alot better design,another looking to get

Robotmaker,

Those are some very impressive high end bots that you are looking to buy, my interest is on the hobbies level so approx $2500 bucks into the bot in my pic is as far as I'm willing to invest for a hobbies bot.

What ever bot you buy I would really look at it's ability to identify it's surroundings and apply that info to a very high degree of collision avoidance in a natural environment.

It's easy to set a bot in a square room with multiple geometric shapes/equal lighting and avoid everything, take that same bot outside on as sidewalk and the first thing it will do is fall of the sidewalk because it doesn't have a means of sensory input to look down at edges.

I think that a platform that is able to manover in the public enviroment at the same speed as a human with full colision avoudance ( if it's wheels, tracks or legs ) will be the beginning of the first truly domestic robot that will enhance our everyday living, all other things such as speech, hearing , vision, emotion etc will follow.

If you look you will see that the basic walking of todays bots is still in it's infantcy , there is only a small handfull that can walk decently and even fewer that can run without falling over.

But hey, a $45000 robot would be fun for awhile.

It's great to know what everyone is doing for a living. I run a R/C Hobby web shop at www.aprohobbies.com, what got me into the business was getting into the hobby myself in the first place, been in this hobby for over 5 years. I designed and install a few backlight kits for R/C transmitters that don't come equipped with one:

www.aprohobbies.com/screen-backlight-spektrum-dx7s-blue-p-536.html www.aprohobbies.com/screen-backlight-xp9303-x9303-dsx9-9xii-mx22-p-123.html www.aprohobbies.com/screen-backlight-spektrum-dx6i-p-155.html

I'm getting into robotics because of EZ-Robot (working on my Wall-E as we speaks) and for the same reason EZ-Robot is now available in our store for all Hobbyist to explore a new hobby opportunity Thanks to DJ.

Best regards, Louis

Cool!

I don't have a job as i'm just 14 years old but i've designed and built the world's smallest Arduino. I'm planning to do a kickstarter for it soon to get my business up and running so i can make more stuff (money is the limit of most of my projects)

thats very cool NIEK ,i made also super tiny arduino same size as a 40 pin chip kinda linda like the basic stamp stich but smaller and looking at making about have that size with surface mount chip

how big is yours,

mostly i send my pcb i design to company who makes them fairly cheap,plus has free software looking to sell soon some of my designs for robot builders,from sensor boards to arduino boards problem selling arduino boards ,to many clones are on the market some very tiny and very cheap here is one like mine complete for $10 only i added usb on top of it

smallest arduino board looking at making half the size for my projects,but i dont think i will be able to sell them to many many arduino clones going cheap,plus not really looking to make more money

i think i made and design well over 400 boards working for the company some testers take up to 7 boards ,main reason is easy to repair, plus universal

@LTT this outrunner motor C05M 11000Kv Micro Brushless Outrunner Motor is it good for a quad copter design and what blade would be good for it and what would the lift power be about with 4 of them

@robotmaker

Don't know much about quad copters but it's quite powerful for a tiny brushless motor, we normally uses these in Blade MCPX helicopter brushless conversion and it has quite a lift for 3D maneuvers. I can't imagine what would 4 of them will be able to life. There is a more powerful motor, check the HP05S, i have two models, one spins at 13,200Kv and one at 12,500Kv, very powerful lift for its size.

Checkout these vids, these aren't mine but you get the idea how powerful the motors are:

C05M: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGL3xKhR7d8 HP05S: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSLQvg3h5g

Hey RobotMaker,

I have been thinking about a Leaf bot. I tried to get it installed and function on my desktop prior to moving to a stand alone computer. I got it to a point where all installed and it says Hello I am Leaf but cannot seem to connect with mic etc.

Interested in giving me some pointers. My email is [email protected] I have posted a few things on the board for group but no one seems to respond. Not like this great group here. One of the big things I like about EZ. The community ;o)

was it leaf ai group in yahoo,re you using a web cam ,yahoo group is better to answer questions http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/leaf_an_AI_robot/ fairly east to set up once a few minor changes made or using a different operating system,also need to train the microphone with a bould in windows program,plus need to ask the right question ,that always start with (leaf) then question "leaf this is bruce" or "leaf this is robin",latter on easy to change robin name to your name aso need to install sapi and i think there is a small change for the new sapi (sapi is voice) do you have windows xp pro or vista or windows 7