First post (er...reply?) Looking sweet! Im jealous!

Thanks Troy, I am looking forward to getting him together. It looks like I may start installing equipment soon because.my.painter is busy this week . That's ok. It still would be great to see Jarvis mostly assembled even if he is still grey. I would like to have him rolling around in some capacity before Halloween , freak some kids out lol , drive him in a movie theater lol. I know the people at the local radioshack would be surprised to see him.

Or the local shopping mall.

PS. Dont forget EZ-Robot signs/stickers on the robot. You might not be permitted to hand out flyers though.

Oh that's a good one too! Lol

Just dont bring lil bro's Warrior camo omni to any theaters or malls. lol We might not see it for a while as it may be processed as evidence. LMAO

Oh IM sure it would get some attention from people thinking those guns are real lol

Feb 1012? You are much older than you look. Also, you have been working on the project a very,very long time. micro processors were not even out until 1975.

ha!ha! -I'm Joking. Jarvis looks Professional. Can't wait until he is assembled. Good work Josh!

:D

Josh! I am so anxious to see the arms moving. I still cant image how they will move the way you want them to with the heavy duty servos. Pls upload a video when you have one moving. Mike PS Have you had a chance to mail out the spares?

Wow... the primer is down. He looks really awesome Josh.

@mike I sent the spare parts out and got them back today for incorrect postage. I tried sending them in a flat rate box and they sent it back. I will need to go back to the post office.

@Sam thanks! It's great to see it in one color lol. I will be making the elbows and get the arms moving shortly.

Yeah I bet it is.

Can't wait to see this guy moving around.

Hi Josh! Oh no! How could they. Send me a message if I need to wire you something though PP - also, if you dont happen to need the Omnibot arms anymore and they would fit the spares box still, let me know. Man, I am sorry for all the work you have with psting those spares. I am sure you got better things to do - such as posting news on Jarvis here =) Thanks Josh, I really appreciate you helping me out with robot spares!

No problem mike , I love helping others =) I'll go back to the post office tomorrow and I'll take pics of receipts

Im sick so i cant work on the robots today , must be food poisening or flu. Great news is the much needed 300mm servo ext cables came in. On jarvis i must actually double up these to get to arm servos and neck.

looks like it getting there was watching a movie on my vacation trip called "short circuit" may be 10 time i seen it and near the end i see omnibot 2000 robot with my favorate robot johhny five CANT wait to get back to work on my omnibot 2000 project,going to be a very good design
JOSH keep adding to yours but dont over do it ,or you may have problems

Man Josh! He looks great! Take it easy - your robot will always be there for you when you are ready.

dont rush JOSH,get better first and take it easy i had the flu awhile back and took a week off and didnt do much,chicken soup is real good for the flu

Josh! Hope you are feeling better soon.

Also, I noticed in the picture you had servo extension wires. I was wondering how heavy duty they are and how much they cost and where did you get them. I got some on Ebay that were extremely cheap, flimsy and did not work very well.

Well, when you are feeling better, maybe you can share this information with me. I will Eventually have to find another source for these cables.

I posted this already, but it did not stick for some reason.

thanks,

Mel

:D

It wasn't bad compared to buying just a few. I picked up 60 but this particular auction is 15 dollars for 40 shipped. They appear to be fine. If I had a problem or concern I will let you know.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140377559846?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Fans are on the way . F12 arctic 120mm fans are high flow 74 cfm and .3 sone at 1350 rpm.

Jarvis needs plenty of cooling given he has a full computer a couple ezb boards , voltage regulators for drive motors and servos , the pc power supply and Sabertooth 10x2 H Bridge.

Best part is these fans are 6 dollars each and have won awards for silent operation while having the high 74 cfm rating. http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/cooling/case-fans/77/arctic-f.html

Cool!

servocity has some very heavy duty cables,ones you got JOSH ,dont look good for high current servo's ,they look like a #26 wire what i do is i make my own cables and use the correct gauge of wire for each type of servo need to pick the gauge to match the stall current of the servo,same for h-bridges too

I'll try these and upgrade if needed. I bought these because of price send plugs are already installed.

yea you need a special crimper tool,you need different sizes also,i bout a lot of different ones to have on hand ,never know when one is needed,i like building custom cables for many reason IDC ribbons are mostly the hardest and crimpers are high cost

Ok so I picked up the screws and washers to make the elbow joint site maybe I can get those together after work.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. I was thinking of putting Mr clock radio head I have inside the Robbie Sr helmet. I do have the additional challenge of finding a new place for the ez robot camera I took before and after pics of camera looking through the dome and it's not that bad. Take a look guys. This is mostly a looks issue and tell me what you think. Remember I have a neck that turns tilts and nods for this to attach to.

What do you guys think. Stick with my omnibot 2000 head I already have ready to go or would it be better looking to have Mr clock radio inside this helmet.

Hmmm... Take a pic with helm shield up.

The original head is nice. It's a better size I think.

Yeah, I think the original head is better.

Yeah original head

yes original head much better

Looking good Josh

Original head for sure! This is what the Omni 2000 is all about!

Haha the jury has spoken! Original head it is.

They Both look Great, but the Original Head Looks Best.

Mel

Thanks everyone! Hopefully I can get the arms together soon

Jarvis has 2 ezb boards

Anyone want to help me organize where servos and sensors are plugged in? Here is the list of sensors that are a must.

Right arm 4 servos Left arm 4 servos Neck 3 servos

Drive H Bridge sabertooth 12 x 2

Front radar servo

RaDar ultrasonic

Ultrasonic in each hand 2

Mp3 trigger board

Ambient light sensor

Face ultrasonic

2 current sensors

4 contact sensors / switches to detect collision

2 Ir cliff sensors

1 ir distance sensor also on radar turret

Battery voltage sensor

Optional sensors at this time

Close to floor center ultrasonic

Side close to floor ultrasonic x 2

Ir directional sensor

2 directional sound sensors

Ir illuminator trigger on

I think there were other potential sensors but this is the most of them.

Ok running at 7 volts I noticed the drive train made much less noise but because I have two motors running each side it still pulls the 45 pounds of weights no problem. I purchased a 10amp step down converter so I have options to tune the voltage the drive motors run at. The unit is smaller than I imagined....

cool

Ok tonight I wanted progress! I began making the elbow. It has to be cheap , strong and smooth moving with zero play. Here we go....

Very cool look. Will you be using pushrods to bend it?

Very nice Josh! I wish I had thought of that for B.O.B. But now he is going to be a battle bot so not important. lol

Great Elbow!

Very nice.... I like the way you did the elbow.

Thanks guys! I will attach servo horns and rods tonight and test its movements

Great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI6XYiwums0&feature=youtube_gdata_player Late night delirium setting in lol

This video has not been published yet but here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI6XYiwums0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow! That works SOOOOOOO well Josh! I sure wish I had done something like that on my omnibot. Great work!

Thanks Brett! Soon you will have your Rad 2.0 base maybe next tues or wed I did the long video to show everyone how it works. Im going to make a stage setup just for youtube videos so I dont have my stove in videos anymore lol and look more professional.

The arms are awesome. not loud either... awesome job.

Yea and I have not lubed them either. So squeks rattles or whatever. Thanks for pointing that out. I didnt notice it was not crazy noisy when I took the video. The servo does make a bit of buzz noise but im wrapping it in dynamat to reduce that too.

Josh, Just wanted to say what a cool looking robot you got there. You do very nice work. I am following your progress closely.

Rex

@rgordon thanks I appreciate the comments. Really though positive comments after a long nights work getting somthing working smooth really makes my day.

Im getting restless working on the gun robots for my little brother and sister. Jarvis needs to be worked on lol

I already know jarvis is getting a bright red iron man type paint job. However im trying to think of colors to make dusty....dusty ofcourse will be together before jarvis

Wow, nice job! Did you take molding lessions?

Thanks merne . I learned most fabrication from custom car audio and performance installs. Its amazing all the other places you can apply the creative experience. Before jarvis and dusty project I never made a robot before so it is especially challanging because im learning about hardware , the physical mechanics of things and also I must learn code. These projects have been equal to taking a college course almost full time.

merne, Is your avatar a picture of a robot you built? Is it made from an ElvisAlive! ? If so , can you share some pix with us? It looks cool.

:P

I believe I will drill the holes for the elbow servo to mount down to tonight. Also assemble the shoulder pan brackets and attach those to the upper arm. Maybe tonight we will see Jarvis with arms mounted to the body?

Cool! Hey, you could always do a reverse paint job on Dusty. Gold with red accents.

I would need to change his name to midus then lol

Jstarne1, I know what you mean, on the never build robots. I too just started. And man there is a lot to learn.

MovieMaker,

It's a combonation of ElvisAlive Mask, and A head from Rotbotsquared, I cut the lower jaw off and installed a moving mouth/teeth with servo. Removed the lower eye lids, then added the ElvisAlive mask. Then once I got the EZB, will the rest is history. Now it works without having to know how to program. I call him Ricky. I am going to use Ricky for Halloween.

Funny thing is, 4 months ago off work and bored and before I knew about EZ-Board. I bought the head and then added EZB and now it works! Go DJ! in the mean time while surfing the web, I found Robots and Androids who was selling the Wowwee Robotics' Alive Elvis. So I bought it. So I have Ricky and Elvis. And a used R2D2 on the way. This may be down the road maybe 2 years, but I plan on making Elvis mobile.

BTY this is all new to me and I am learning a lot and still know so little just on this borad alone. So thank you and everybody else for sharing. I will post some Pics tomorrow.

Its cool you animated it with servo s but your avatar creeps me out Halloween style lol

Alright I took a couple days off from the Jarvis project and now im ready to build and assemble the shoulders. In my shoulders there is a robotzone gearbox powered by a power hd 1501 mg once I modify the servo. Next is the lynxmotion pan and tilt bracket also with a power hd 1501mg servo. The servo side will be mounted the the shoulder and 4 machine screws will attach each bracket to the servo city modified hub.

Cool. When do you think he will go to paint?

Great question . A couple weeks ago i talked to clint the painter and he was swamped with insurance paint jobs but he should be about done with them. I will send Jarvis to paint once the painter is ready as I dont want the painter to have Jarvis for weeks waiting on the insurance job to be finished. While im waiting on the painter I plan to work out details. Put in bump switches and I still have two small 4 inch areas to bondo and sand then seal with primer. I basically want to physically test the primary function and movement of the robot to ensure there are no fundamental changes to be made that might result in me screwing up a pretty red paint job. So its not a big rush but I would like to hand Jarvis over before the end of the month and maybe dusty too to get them done at the same time..

Tiny update! My sound solution came in. A sony brand analog stereo condenser microphone. It has seperate right and left position mic elements so Jarvis can hear in stereo. Each element has a screw so I believe I can extend the wires and actually position one element on each side of the head near the "ear" area.

Wow I just realized I have not done anything productive with Jarvis for a week now. I have been distracted getting the mech robots done. It wont be long they will be up and running. I recieved my ezrobot shipment with servos and cameras to install in them. Next im waiting for the motor controllers for them..... which agian was my distraction. So my next steps were to install shoulder brackets and modify two servos to continously rotate for the robotzone servo gearbox.

It is so easy to get distracted with other robots. So many robots so little time haha.

I know right? Im going to text my painter tommorow and see when he can paint the robot. Tommorow I plan to get most or all of the shoulders together. I need to still mold a couple areas on the base and get the claws reinstalled so it could be painted.

Update : just letting everyone know I didn't forget about Jarvis. I took a couple weeks off working on the saltwater tank and ive been on a weird alternate training schedule for work. Sometimes it really helps when you set a project aside for a little while because I had to work on the design for the 12v psu to the computer and video card and it must also be able to plug into the wall and charge or return to a dock. Each of these things by themselves are done on a regular basis by robot hobbyists and commercial robot manufacturers. I believe I have a big picture worked out I will share in diagrams tommorow and I need to get parts to do these mods.

Cool, I'm excited to see more Jarvis updates.

hey that cool saltwater tank i have 50 gallons tank i set up for that what size is your tank,also just add a special wall tank on my wall

update on my omnibot project i just got a large order of mcmaster parts and servo city and will be starting on my arms made with metal inside with plastic omnibot arm on the outside look for photos very soon

The smart aquarium is 55 gallons

i think thatn same one i got,other ones 40 gallon ,and five 10 gallon tanks plus 8 gallon wall tank you getting any saltwater fish for it

@jstarne1 hey josh, I was just wondering if you had any close up pics on how you connected your pan / tilt mechanism to the head / shoulders? The best I could fine was this, but I couldn't see how you'd mounted it.

@matt honestly they were hot glued down for testing at that time. The brackets have screw holes I plannedn on using 1/4" self tapping screws and predrill the holes for good bite. I will get back on jarvis soon as everything is mounted up in squeegee so I can play with him while Jarvis is away. I am a complete idiot and accidentally threw away my sander so I am buying a new one Thursday and will finish up some things so I can get Jarvis to paint.

@josh for the shoulders, did you / will you be fixing some wood into place and attaching the mount to that? Will be really good to see this project finished, I think i pretty much read the whole of the two forum threads it's really inspiring stuff (the squeegee project too).

@matt the sides of the omni torso have a hollow cavity. I filled them with a few ounces of epoxy to makr the sides stronger and then predrilled mounting holes for the servo city 5 to 1 ratio servo gearbox. It seems to be plenty strong to support the 3 pound max lifting capacity of the servos and then some. I prefer epoxy mounts over wood if there is a practical area to form them.

josh why do you need another set of arms,sorry need both of my omnibot arms for covering for my aluminium frame,and same with the second omnibot i bought

i saw a great deal at petsmart for a very large tank 150 gallons with stand ,getting it christmas looking to put very large saltwater fish in that one

@robotmaker i was looking for arms to add to dusty. It was just an idea. Since dusty is a service bot i really don't need them.

Hey Josh, if you want them you can have the arms off Bob for Dusty - one is that gripper claw. I won't need them with the guns. I can ship them with your Robie Sr. head (I am not going to use it) It's up to you, just let me know.

just got a very big robot emiglio ,its bigger then omnibot and B9 robot,plenty of room inside to hack for ez board also got the best laser range finder you can get hokuyo URG-04LX for $1000 great deal it goes for $1200 ,hope soon that DJ will have a interface for it,may use it on my omnibot project

@bret sure send the arms with the robie sr head. I will probably use them

JOSH i guess you be glad when you get your omnibot project done and codes made have you got it painted yet,or you adding more updates i added photos of my arm design on my omnibot project page

any progress yet on your omnibot project,getting some tools in this tuesday mostly my table belt sander to finish of my aluminium frame,hand sanding and using a file take much much time also my mill machine came in last friday ,still have about 16 big tools to come in

are you going to use a IRONMAN mask for his head,they have one on ebay ironman helmet ,just like the one i got for one of my omnibot projects ,transfomer helmet getting it tuesday

also i found out i dont really need any cooling on my design,using super low wattage items ,like sensors and more fist it does many thing ,no cooling is needed ,save you weight and current(battery life) and second the same using using low current ,sensors,motors and boards it says on current used (battery life)

No I planned on using the original omnibot 2000 head. I want Jarvis to be recognized as a highly modified omnibot 2000. I changed shifts two weeks ago and ive been making early nights. I accidentally threw away my power sander sad right? Lol. I have a couple areas that need body work before paint. The area on the front edges of the base and the rear of the base where I extended it out 1.5 inches.

Hey Josh, I have an extra sander I will throw in your goody box.

i like a good table belt sander,easy to use and not heavy in your hand and does a much better job most are $179 like the one i got and has a side disc sander,i have 3 other sanders i got for other jobs,like a detail sander for getting to close places ,palm sander for light sanding and handheld belt sander for very heavy sanding,but table belt sander is always the best nice sanded shaping and sander doesnt move or heavy holding it my omnibot project using the omnibot head,nextone might use the transfomers helmet for it or the smaller omnibot 5402 i have also bought 4 of them i guess you say i have a omnibot family of 7 total

Sweet! I get a sander from bret. Today is my Birthday ! Woop woop!

wish i had a extra sander,i would give it to you too

happy birthday Josh!

happy b-day josh

is this project DEAD ,havent heard of any update in long while

As you know he is working quite a bit on his other project. He likes all his projects and Jarvis will get some love when the time comes.

yes i know,just joking ,JOSH IS a lot like me,i start on one project and then start on another girlfriend of mine not happy with not working on the robot she bought for me,but still like my omnibot and helps me work on it,going to give her a very big gift ,long long vacation to jamaica with me about june 1 for 3 weeks

Happy Birthday, Josh!

It is hard to have a birthday in Dec.  People always say "here is your birthday-Christmas present."

I have a son that was born Dec 24th. We carried him home on DEC 25th in a Christmas stocking. It was quite nice.

:D

Hey Josh, has Jarvis been painted yet? I would really love to see some pics.

i am waiting on the coding mostly

JOSH hows it comming any changes yet

Nope no changes yet. I bought the upper half of a omni 2000 so I could rob his arms and torso for dusty. I might do a dual camera setup , one in each eye since the "camera nose" has become very popular. It was simply to cold and wet to be productive today. I am starting to plan Squeegees brother which is another robie jr I will post sketches.

Thats my plan for my full size johnny five robot I did buy a stereo camera using 2 camera,s and a special board

Hi Josh! Do you happen to have an Omnibot 2000 head as a leftover? Any more gears you wont need anymore? Mike

I just your email mike I bought a partial omnibot 2000. The upper half torso w the arms , torso, arms, head.... ect. I bought it mostly for misc parts. So do you need a head ?

i think the head on mine is good,and i might have one left over

You know I always take care of you mike

yeah, I know, haha! =) Yeah, I need a head and the lower plastic of the bot - the part where the wheels and the gear box sit in. So I pretty much need the top and the bottom of the bot, the inbetween I have.

Very inspirational Josh,and I love the (good)peer pressure and the encouragement! Take a rest and get healthy.

JOSH your christmas gift shoud be comming soon

@MikeDC LOL you already have LOTS of Omni2000s!

@ Troy! Haha - yeah, I have a few but still need a few parts to complete another one. =) You never got back with me about your spares.... Mike

Getting my 3rd in a few days,its all apart making it super easy to make another EZB OMNIBOT 2000 project,so far the other 2 in good shape,on one no changes at all. Straight OMNIBOT 2000 RESTORE.

Look for this weekend for some photos i am putting up on my omnibot 2000 project

JOSH did you forget about this project,been very long since i see anything

Nope I have not forgotten Jarvis , Im just going to get Squeegee moving first just in case I get ideas for Jarvis while im working on a different robot.

LOOKING to see the paint job and EZB codes to see if i needed them,coding looks very easy but when you have another person post thier codes it makes a lot faster.

ALSO my girlfriends wants me to build server type of robots and plays or controls music and TV and to chat with while i am gone

I assure you Jarvis' s code will not be easy , there are lots of sensors and tasks planned for him.

all mine are the same,like my omnibot project is going to use a lot of them I use alot of sensors mostly for navigation,and making a special board for then to use only ADC port instead of 2 or 3 EZB'S ,its called multiplexing can have over 100 analog or digital or servos plus it much much faster ,no cpu is used like all scripts are done on one EZB

well planned and efficient robotmaker! What is the type/name of the multiplexor chip your using, please.

Wait did you say your making it to where there is no pc needed to run scripts? Is it really as ezb anymore then?

JOSH no it uses EZB ,IT USE ONE ADC port and a few digital lines

IROBOT one for analog is called CD4053,then there others for digital

@Josh I believe robotmaker said he would not need more then 1 EZB and use a multiplexor to create multiple inputs "instead of 2 or 3 EZB'S ,its called multiplexing can have over 100 analog or digital or servos' " if I may speak for him

YES and multiplexing is very easy,also i use CD4051 not CD4053 as i posted but they are both multiplexer chips ,can easy set one up as sensors ,and one as battery monitor and more

For furthur circuit clarification

and the analog CD4053 description... http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/cd4053/cd4053.htm

IROBOT thats about the same circuit thats needed,only IN is the output and 8 inputs chip can be demultiplex or multiplexer since its bidirectional and CD4053 is same only dual 4 channel ,same data sheet for both

OK Josh you did it, sending me videos to lure me in.

But you know me and now I have questions. Where'd you get the replacement motors? Your gear box is different than mine, think the motors are the same size. You mentioned in the video that you added some other gears, how and where?

Now as far as covers. Figure out how tall wide etc you want them. Or even just one cover. I will send you the solvent, plastic and instructions on how to make it in minutes. Once you do it once you're gonna be hooked.

yay Sam your back! I'm at work not on break I'll respond to the rest later.

Oh there's no rush. :o)

SAM havent heard from you while and your robot designs ,hows the cute little MINON doing

JOSH we going to see some changes soon on your omnibot design

Yay Sam! It is good to see you post again! You have been missed. And Josh, we are missing pics of Jarvis. What's the haps?

Thank you, I have been around just focusing on other things. A bit discouraged about my dude but Josh here has managed to lure me back in. :o)

WHATS wrong with your MINON PROJECT

The minion had way to many limitations so I dismantled him. Started the franken bot dude and got discouraged with the Robosapien body and base. Ya know the one you sent me the Hearoid body.

SORRY to hear that,dont give up,i found a another head for hearoid robot if you need it,can let you have it for free only pay shipping,but will have to wait 3 weeks in china for work

I have a head, thank you.

@Sam hey I been moving all week , the motors I got from robot maker but can buy them from robotshop too. The motors are RS585 Mabuchi I believe. They are the motors a roomba uses for the main brush. Thank you! I will pull the gearbox out and get some measurements.;) the room a motors are just about the same size but they have a noticeable increase in torque over originals. If you are looking for more power and don't wanna buy those then maybe you could use two more original motors.

SAM i can help you out and give them to you free,just little ,i have a lot of them Since i still need your help on fixing my tail on my MYLO puppy.

I said I'd help regardless all you have to do is send it to me. I'm not sure I want to do anything with the current gear box. I think I might use that for something else. I'm planning on going to Pick and Pull and getting window motors. Will see how that works out.

OK so I picked up a new SKILL brand Octo hand sander and three sets of sand paper. 60 120 and 220 grits. I went to start setting up the table outside and turn about my ext cord was too short because I don't have a outside outlet. After I finally got back with the new 25 ft ext cord it was getting dark because its 823 pm. I can still do the initial filling with bon do on certain spots now however. I will mark them with a black sharpie.

Dang it , I get home and we lost the creme hardener for the bondo.

Poopie

One of the things that does not stand out it I filled in all the ridges that wrapped across the front of the chest. No one that has seen this pic yet noticed I shaved it smooth. Also there was a tiny overhang along the bottom of the ridges/ speaker area and I completely filled and molded this together. I filled the previous led holes because it looked crowded and I already have 6 led mounts on the head of Jarvis and 4 on the chest. This was intended to be for night time IR vision so they won't be visible. Only two on each side of the head and 4 along the base will be visible light.

I had to finish molding in the rear of the base where I had to extend it out nearly 2 inches to give plenty of room for the modified quad motor gearbox. I believe this is all the mods I needed for the gearbox. The only other mods on the bottom I need right now is two casters on the bottom of the vacuum head because the original rollers were never meant to slide side to side when the robot will turn left or right.

I'm letting primer dry overnight because it rained and humidity will make the primer gum up my sander. The molding of the rear extension is almost done. Just a little touch up and its good to go. The two challenges I have at the moment are cutting the front chest piece for the DVD drive and finishing molding in the ARC reactor. I been putting this project to the side through the holidays and moving. I really want to see Jarvis in one piece and start fitting electronics soon !

Here's pics of the mid section and the vacuum backpack. Today Alequa wanted to sand on the backpack. He's still new to custom molding things together but he is learning.

Here is a pic of Jarvis body stacked up before I started back working on him

OK lead acid batteries are reliable and cheap , however I want to really lighten up the load. I currently have room for two 12v 9ah batteries but in the same space as one lead acid I could have two lipo. I believe I will only have two lipo though. Here's the specs from hobby king.

4.18 v per cell is 3s = 12.54 volts charged 11.1 volts is considered discharged and time for a charge.

They are 23 dollars each today so maybe I will buy two.

5000mah 3S lipo pack is 412 grams = 14.53 ounces . That's less than a pound! Also I will note turnigy has nanotech versions of their batteries which are even lighter.

The power sonic 12v 9ah battery is 6 pounds. Its true I would need two of the lipo packs to exceed the battery run time but that's still 1 pound 13 ounces instead of 6 pounds!

Thank you Josh for "thinking out loud" One of your many talents is to see a "mundane object" and invision something else as in JARVIS! Something like turning a chunk of marble into "David"....IMHO your the best "robot body hacker" on this Forum!

Hey thanks man! Hearing a complement like that makes me feel like a million dollars. Its all about dreaming something up into something better

Oh what do you mean by thinking out loud? Just wondering

@josh, I would thoroughly recommend LiPo batteries. Like you said, you can fit 2 in the space of 1 SLA and for weight, they weigh barely anything (which is why Melvin rocks on his base, no weight at the back).

I've never looked back since replacing the SLA for a LiPo, just make sure you have some kind of monitoring in place, either the EZ-B or a cheapo balance port monitor.

Jarvis is coming along nicely!

I believe a power cutoff controlled by ezb may be a good option. Well work that out when we get there

Josh,

I know different application but we got one of those batts for the hexacopter and it was ok, ran down pretty fast. These are a little more expensive but so much better. We got the Venom 14.8 5000 mah 25c. It doubled the time from 10 mins to 20 mins.

Thinking out loud is something I love too. The expressing of your whole thought process. Most people don't do that.

JOSH looks like its getting good

Thanks Sam , I like to share ideas as I have them , someone else might need it nor have a better one to share. Speaking of Sam had a rocking problem and I sent her some casters to put on the corners. Perhaps you could do something similar.

Josh I ripped off my whole base and am redesigning it. Blah!

You should do tracks , or like 8 skate wheels

I am actually thinking of using the 4" lawn mower wheel.

Wow , rubber wheels like that will have lots of grip.

Can you link me the battery your talking about?

Here the Venom that we got but we found it on ebay. For about $60

Venom on ebay

Here's the casters I have for Jarvis for the vacuum head to ride on. I chose plastic to prevent floors from getting scratched but a metal version is available I could swap to if I need. 3/8" ball

Wow they are sure proud of that battery! I could buy three turnigy for that price. I will try them if turnigy does not meet my needs since I have used a handful of their stuff.

Does it feel good to be working on him again?

Oh yeah , I feel like I should have been working on him the whole time lol. Its crazy to have stopped so close to getting him to the paint guy.

I was wondering about that but I get it. Sometimes you just need to step away and take a break. I know I did but I was more frustrated.

Maybe Jarvis will be making an "in progress" appearance at Maker Faire?

By maker fair Jarvis should be painted and have head and arm movements and facial / movement tracking, he should be presentable by then.

Wow.... that would be awesome. If you are hoping to impress them, bringing Jarvis will do it.

OK slight updated pics and I will add some text. You can see the improvement in comparison to the first pics on the thread.

This pic shows direct view from the rear. The bottom of the mid section will house the PC upside down. The normal connections will show through here. I'm still thinking of having the graphics card and I bought an ext cable PCI express x16 which I tested and seems to work well. This is so I can lay the card on its side instead of vertical. The two monitor connections and video card air intake are right there. I will do a bit of test fitting to make sure this is doable. I extended the height of the base specifically so I would have extra room for this video card.

The first pic you can really see my problem. The rear is about a half inch off from fitting correctly in the first picture. I believe I will need to take a flat piece of wood and hot glue it in place and then fill the gap. It needs to be thick so I can epoxy L brackets in to hold nuts. Those nuts are how I will mount the back plate of the battery compartment. Even with two fans and a center vacuum inlet tube I should have a fairly spacious area here for 2 to 4 lipo batteries.

Separate power for the Nvidia GT 550ti - The video cards power would be on a switch by the way , this way I can power it off and default to onboard video when autonomous. I'm sure autonomous use without me being home won't happen till later this year but there is no reason to keep rewiring stuff. I will have a separate power supply fed from the battery/ outside power desperate from the tax power supply. This is because trying even the biggest 240 watt M4 atx power supply from mp3car.com still could not keep the PC on beyond boot if the video card was active. If anyone has ideas for separate power let me know and I will post mine.

Power draw for the current Motherboard - anyone know of a program I can downloads that estimates power usage? Basically I can guess based on specs of all the hardware but something real would be nice.

Anything that estimates power usage is generally very inaccurate in my experience.

With laptops I use battery eater (used in the infamous Windows XP vs Windows 7 battery life topic/tests) but it reads and logs from the ACPI, if the battery isn't connected like a laptop's battery I presume the ACPI wont know about it and will assume it's running on mains AC.

There is always this calculator which will give you a worst case result.

OK so without the hard drive and DVD drive it gave me this with just the memory , CPU and motherboard

Then once I selected the high speed SATA drive , Mouse , keyboard, 4 USB devices , 4 fans and a DVD rw drive it estimated this...

With the video card Nvidia GT 550ti it went up to this...

It looks like once ARC is loaded and the video card power is off that the motherboard should be drawing about 35 watts. With 120 watt hours of battery life ( two 5000 mah packs) that's 3.5 hours run time for the PC in the worse case. Not too bad

nice Josh

Sounds about right. It may pay to run from USB memory stick or SD card, however speed is reduced but power usage is reduced by a lot. There's a lot you could do. Also, I am pretty sure you can turn off the gfx card via windows rather than hard wiring it

I don't think I will go that far for energy conservation. Lol I like my speed. Its very fast considering it has a AMD dual core 2ghz 270u but my board can over clock it as needed to 2500 MHz. Its TDP is only 25 watts. Its a tiny bit more than a atom CPU as far a power but great performance. 7.8 on the win 7 experience rating.

Hopefully it won't rain today so I can get back to working on the body. I need to put a to do list together.

Have you tried Wunderlist? It's a great app for checklist style things. Have you thought about adding more batteries to keep everything on?

Yes more batteries are an option but to start out two will do fine till he is autonomous

Oh I thought that I read you were having problems with hims shutting down when stuff was on.

It was because the video card draws more current than the atx PSU could support. Oh good news then tent was still there lol

Woo hoo... good thing it was there.

Awe I see. Can you give a video card separate power? Or do you have to up the PSU?

Yes that looks like the only option is give the card its own 12v regulated from the battery.

JOSH any new updates yet

Here is where I need to cut for the DVD drive but its storming outside.

OK back to work on Jarvis for some little clean up spots because he is going to the painter today!

The only places I'm not worried about finishing are the back side and back vent holes. Its not a big deal and I realized I'm trying to put way too much detail in my very first robot. ( even though I've had other projects after Jarvis he's still the first child lol)

Jarvis is looking good. like the dvd player idea.

Where are you getting all this stuff!

this is a very unique omnibot.

@Techno pro - thank you , one of my goals with building this robot is despite all the physical modifications my goal is to utilize every single piece of the original Omnibot 2000 shell. Even original wheels. I want the most advanced Omnibot 2000 ever!

The pink material is bondo body filler as I don't want everyone to know they are just speaker grills. Sorry Memphis Audio , you don't put in on the project you don't get your name on it

Here is the inventory of small parts to be painted minus the grills, vacuum canister, and accessory door in the back of the robot.

This the assembly of the new arm internals I made. A strong elbow that I cannot bend or flex grabbing it by my hand....wow I love epoxy

Does that mean you are getting ready to go to paint?

I'm on my way to the painter as we speak....or blog..

Woo hoo... Jarvis will be all shiny and awesome for maker faire!

https://m.facebook.com/?refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F&_rdr#!/james.c.coe?__user=100000247624879

James Clint Coe is the painter....

That elbow really does look strong!

OK parts drop has been made and painter says 1 to 2 weeks and he will do it in between full car jobs. To try to keep him on schedule I told him I'm taking it to a show in 3 weeks so I need it done by then lol. He's a good guy but painters procrastinate.

@troy thanks! I wanted something metal because I thought plastic would be too weak for jarvis to hold 3 pounds.

Definitely! I sure would have flexed a great deal if it didn't immediately break. Looking forward to the unveiling!

Maybe backlight them with EL panels cut into "S" shape?

Oh yes , trace plexiglass and light it from the inside with leds. That's a idea.

The arch reactor was removed and frame will be painted.

Thanks for the updates Josh! Dang I wish I could go to Makerfaire too!...any chance of a "live stream" I believe the color is cherry red?

You could paint just the red part to match and leave the chrome.

Thanks Sam , well see hmm

OK new thing i gotta consider is the sensors in the hands/ claws. I drilled out holes for the ultrasonic sensors but the spacing is about 1/2" wider meaning I will need to have wire leads coming from a transducer to the board. Here's the pics.

Basically I'm thinking since I gotta hot.glue in sensors anyways maybe I could slightly tilt them to shorten the min distance? Or does everyone think just leaving them straight is best? I may make a separate post about this...

Hmmm.... would tilting it damage the sensor? Well I was more thinking the board.

The sensor itself would be in the hole and wire leads running to the control board.

Oh I was thinking you were using the ping on the board. I damaged a ping sensor by bending the board is why I asked.

I think tilting them would allow you to get in closer with a smaller object. But then straight you'll also get a broader range. I don't know which is better. Maybe you could do one of each and experiment with that.

For the claw it just needs to accurately detect that 1 to 3 inch area and more than that is not needed.

I still think you'd be fine either way.

Less than a inch would be nice.... Like 1/2" but I guess I may end up experimenting and using lots of hot glue lol

You could maybe tape it in to start.

Have you thought about IR Object Detection?

Yea but after looking up how the IR sensors work they rely heavily on the angle the light is received to determine a read out. Also the case apparently plays a role and removing the LEDs and sensor from the case further changed how it would read distance. Also it wouldn't work in a bright area or outdoors. So that's why i was going for ultrasonic.

Poopie. I have some but haven't really used them yet so was unfamiliar.

Hey Josh, what about the sharp sensor? It is a lot smaller

This is a very common sensor used in robotics and is also called the Sharp Analog Infra-Red Range Finding System. It uses Infrared to determine the distance of an object in front of it. The Sharp IR Distance Sensors come in many different flavors. I use the GP2D12. I prefer to use the Analog version because they are quicker and integrate well with the EZ-B. The GP2D12 can be plugged into any of the 8 ADC ports.

Higher number means closer objects. Lower number means further objects.

The GP2D12 can detect an object within approx 100 cm (3 feet). IR Distance Sensors are not very accurate and are subject to interference. They do not work well in the sunlight also

Well I already drilled out his claws for ultrasonic sensors so I will try that first , IR will be the backup its just hard to undo those holes lol

OK Jarvis is still with the paint guy. I suspect I will have the parts back by next weekend. I wanted to start testing some equipment out. I came across a very happy surprise. The external DVD drive I purchased turns out to have a lot more features than I thought. Up to 120gb capacity on a blue ray RW disc , obviously it plays blue ray too.

In the picture you can see a blue ray logo but I couldn't see these previously without the power LEDs being lit from the inside. Soooo I am watching blue ray to make sure it works.

I also love blue ray ,i think i have the worlds biggest collection over 400 movies and getting bigger each day

Well it worked perfect , I was very happy with the speed both reading and writing was impressive.

Oh yes my friends... To compliment the release of Ironman 3... Dum DUM DUUUUm! The new Jarvis 2000 Avatar Robot! Is getting his first layers of red.

Last coat of liquid red base.. Before clear

OOOOHHHH Looking really good Josh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFF_3F8TN4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Wow Josh this is really cool! Watched the movie las night and I have to say no wonder why you chose this amazing red! Keep up the good work!

Thanks guys! I saw this red on a Toyota truck and its really pops! It looks like candy, I am tempted to lick it. Lol. Well this was only the arms and half of one claw. Still have the 3 torso pieces and the base to be painted and I'm hoping I can convince him to do that today or tommorow because I want all the pieces red by the weekend.

Bret- ever find that old laptop after you moved? Thanks!

Great to see he's movin' along.

It's so exciting seeing him getting painted.

Clint was spraying these pieces while I was watching the ironman 3 movie. I realized with some shades and a fancy goatee DJ would resemble Tony stark. The pieces pictured were shoulder handles , two claws , the palm of the second claw, the top to the dust canister , rear accessory door and PC plug cover for the rear.

I really should get my own paint gun and compressor so I don't hound Clint anymore for these small jobs. If he is not doing a while side of a car or more hes griping he's not busy enough.

Pretty assembly fitting...

Beautiful!..its coming together! Do all three fingers move or just the "thumb"?

@ I robot all three move;)

Just got the torso back , could have painted it better with a rattle can but at least its painted. In the future I will do the job myself so there are not all these runs and stuff.

Lookin good!

Wet & dry the runs with very fine paper, then polish it with T-Cut or similar, they should come out unless they are very bad runs.

Looks awesome.... Is it all painted now?

Dry fit , things are tighter once they are painted. Takes muscle to get things together.. You can see the rad 1.0 robot....they aren't small at around 20 inches tall..

Outdoors the color is pretty but indoors it catches every ounce of light, the overall "busy" complexity of the body draws your eyes away from imperfections...... I just keep telling myself " its OK josh its your first real robot".

Stop being critical. It's awesome

Guaranteed nobody will notice the minor imperfections, you will because you know they are there but nobody else will look that closely.

Loving the colour indoors, are you adding any gold bits or just sticking with the red?

I believe I will add gold accents but I don't know where I'm going to accent the gold yet... I want it to be made minimal and tasteful. I'm considering just doing liquid gold accents in grooves of the body that's already there. I'm not going to do a gold face... I think it would be too much gold.

@Sam thanks , and you helped frame the base for me to fiberglass

@Rich your right, I will know its not perfect , but it doesn't matter because half the body is hand made.

I think it is fantastic Josh, and you did an outstanding job on a really ambitious project.

Thanks Brett! I really appreciate it! Sometimes I wonder if I'm "up to the eZ robot standard"

OK here is a few pics of the sensors , I may not use 4 to 6 of them but we will see.

are you kidding?, you are the bar haha.

I agree with Bret! You are definately the front runner in this class/size robot. Will you have slideshow of progression pics at the booth. People will definately be impressed! Wouldn't it be cool if you could know how many purchases were made due to your showing and demos.

Here's the list of what's in the pictures

-3- ultrasonic surrounding area prox sensors -2- light Dependant resistors on breakout adapter board -2- IR Motion detectors -1- Custom chest LCD assembly w built in sensors ; voltage , current, batt temp and total wattage usage -4-Short range Sharp IR distance sensors for backup obstical and cliff avoidance if ultrasonics don't "see" a object. -1- Long range Sharp IR sensor and ultrasonic on radar pan/ tilt

• 3-directional microphone on breakout for measuring db to determine direction of loud noise. -2- ultrasonic sensors for object detection in claws -1-wireless EZ Cam -1- ultrasonic in the face -1- ultrasonic pointed up to see when under a table... -1- Sony stereo microphone to hear commands once onboard PC is avail, also has a signal scrubber and 4 watt amp will give the computer a clear loud signal to interpret for voice recognition... -2- spark fun IR 180 degrees sensor... For auto docking to charger ( one front one rear.. Robot turns and follows or beacon to charge) -2- 12 amp current sensors , these will be affixed to a circuit on one digital port to detect if and when the drive.motors stall...

  

@Troy absolutely having a slideshow or something is a great idea. Thanks! I'm not sure what class or type Jarvis is lol unless we are just talking about projects based on a Omnibot torso.

Here are closer pics of some sensors. Some of these are so small its crazy. Things have shrunk down over the past 10 to 15 years.

I couldn't wait to start working on this project. Its been itching at me and this time its not the fiberglass! I installed the low level sonars for side view and direct forward proximity. Also I installed the motion detector and sonar in the top of the head. Here's pics..

Last but not least I'm working on a visual audio indicator , like a vu meter that lights when speaking or playing music. Its 4 blue led bar segments and I have a led vu meter kit more to come on that... But its a perfect fit for the area its going in.

OK its 1152 pm here and I'm delirious so that's all for tonight. I took the day off tommorow so maybe I will make some more progress...

@ Troy yea it would be awesome to know what kind of business my projects bring EZ Robot I will know I have "made it" to the cool kids club when I get Riches approval he's probably our toughest one to impress because he has so much general knowledge about the subject. Well goodnight guys!

Oh almost forgot.... Here is the VU meter I'm hacking up to light the blue led bar graph... Lucky me I found one premade to save me a hour of soldering

Ugh tiny update , Jarvis mini PC that was destined to be mounted in his belly is giving me the blue screen of death and something is screwed up in the CMOS. It forgets the time and date.. Bought a new CMOS battery and it still seems to throw th CMOS error even at boot too. Wow the challenges that come my way... ::scratch my head:: I don't have extra funds to just go to replace Mainboard and CPU so I may not initially have a PC inside Jarvis, maybe remote control for a little while.

Have you checked that the jumpers on the mobo are all in the right places? If the clear cmos jumper is missing or incorrectly positioned it could be what's causing those errors. It may even be something as small as a bios update that's needed. Depending on the age of the board it may pay to get in touch with the manufacturer, they could be able to aid you in getting it running or replace it under warranty, it's always worth a shot.

Poopie about your motherboard. I would call the manufacturer too. Josh I am so excited to see this guy getting put together.

I never registered it but I think it had a three year warranty. I guess that's a backup option. when I'm back at the house I will check the jumpers. I forgot this board has a clear CMOS jumper... That shouldnt be related to the bsod but you can only fix one issue at a time

Yes! 3 yr warranty. I knew there's a reason I went with Asus

First off , Jarvis has to have a power source.... Tada!

Well I was more thinking for support but having a warranty is great..... That looks so awesome....

Glad to see you've gone for the vibranium ARC reactor since I prefer the palladium ARC reactor which is what I'll be putting on my Jarvis (when I eventually get around to making him a physical robot).

Also good news about the warranty but it may be worth a phone call/email to Asus first to save any messing around.

Yes I couldn't find a palladium premade reactor that was small enough for Jarvis. Everything I found was twice the width and was not practical. This was one of the toys that came out with the premier of iron man 2 the movie.

OK so I need to do something custom to detect objects in the claw area and right past the claw. First I hack up a HC SR04 for the TX and Rx.

I also installed the speakers in the base too.

5 watt amp powers the speakers.

OK transmitter and received pairs have been mounted in the claw housing. They should be able to detect a object inside and directly in front of an open claw....

OK time to install the temp monitor and fan controller. This consists of knobs that glow blue and a reverse backlit white/blue display

Next I need to epoxy in a shelf right above this LCD that the Blue ray drive straps down to. Directly above the blue ray drive will be the 40 segment led bar I put together the other day. This time for small stuff I'm using hot glue.... Its simply easier. Took me a year I finally broke down lol. The 1/2" holes on either side of the LCD are for stainless steel led holders.

What I want to know is how heavy this thing will be!;)

@techno pro this project went through a few months of planning before I started actually building what you see here. Once I had every part I planned on using in Jarvis I weighed everything. Then once the new body was fabricated I weighed everything and rounded up in all cases. Assuming he has 4 power sonic lead acid batteries 12v 9ah then the robot would weight just shy of 60 pounds. Though I will use two lead acid batteries for a while I will upgrade to 4 lipo batteries once I work out a safe charging system I can trust to charge batteries while still in the robot. Using lipo batteries should make the project around 12 pounds lighter.

Alright both claws are back together now . all they need is the rubber grip. I'm considering casting the originals and molding new ones from liquid rubber or silicon.

I'm super jealous of how well polished this project is. You may find that you need the extra weight in the base. You will know for certain after you drive it around fully assembled.

@Troy , Thank you! I'm trying! .... Yes I have had that same thoughts. I am considering making a battery tray to sit right on top of the gearbox and have 2 lead acid batteries there. Try to keep a low center of gravity. I have played with the base some and it feels like it rolls very smooth and turns smooth. That makes it a indoor robot for sure. Just remember it took a year of preperations and a planned buying spree to make it look this polished. The suggestions and help from others has made this a fantastic collaborative project.

THE SUSPENCE! I can't wait for you to finish him!

@Techno pro - thanks! Me too.. I daydreamed a bit today of a to do list. Thank you for your support its greatly appreciated.

I just noticed you are inspiring many, many people with this project. Including Rich!;)

Its great! I love it, I like seeing others get inspired and do their own projects too. Some days I like to just help others with their projects.

I got a new secret weapon in today from those little rascals in China. Its a game controller, media remote,mouse touchpad, keyboard and more. I believe it was 30 bucks.

Wireless adapter I bought just for the antenna for the onboard WiFi adapter. I bought two more for the dell towers for a wireless connection.

Yep, inspired me to kick start my Jarvis robot body

I'm the same though, most days I just like to help others, it's been a while since I really got stuck in to a build (I think the last big thing was Melvin's LCD screen which was late March/early April).

I'm interested in seeing how good those keyboard/controller/mouse thingies are, I keep looking at them for my HTPC and for controlling my robots, the price puts me off - can something that cheap be good?..

I'm doing a short basic function video , so far I like it, good range like Bluetooth, the only thing I don't like is sliding my finger all the way from one side to the other equals about 2/3 of the screen so I must pick up my finger and slide a little more sometimes. I believe this can be adjusted with mouse sensitivity but otherwise as long as this thing isn't broken by tommorow its worth every penny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGSl4bbZ9eA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Here's a short video...

Jarvis gets his monitor mounted in his belly...

I have a HDMI to TV video adapter for this screen so it can display the workings of ARC as it functions or I can press a button and it switches to second desktop/ video output and I could have something else displayed.

OK so the motherboard is now back in its originally intended place made for it.... A year ago. I did register the motherboard so I should have another 2 years of warranty and support left for Jarvis. The fans were antec as pictured and pull warm air away from the motherboard.

All in one day?!? Jeass man. I barely got wall-e's left track attached today!

@techno pro lol I didn't really do that much today , it doesn't take long to mount a motherboard and hot glue in two fans. The TV was easy because I molded in a headrest mount before it was painted. I had a list if stuff to do but I ate dinner at my grandparents house and that easily sucked up a couple hours of the evening I wanted to be building.... Its all good though.

In regard to Troys comment about the battery placement.. It appears two batteries maybe three could fit side by side right above the gearbox in the bottom. I do need to remember I have the intention of using lipo batteries though....I really should just order them tonight.

For 89 dollars I have this m4 250 watt max ( really 125 watts continuous) DC to DC power supply. As little as 8 volts and as high as 30 volts. I picked this up over the models that were 20 bucks cheaper because it has programmable features like automatically shutting your PC down when you gave low battery. This is super important when using lipo batteries.

http://store.mp3car.com/M4_ATX_250W_Intelligent_DC_DC_PSU_p/w0-h9vm-hlf7.htm

jarvis is looking freaking fantastic! Its the other end of the spectrum compared to my "steampunk" robot but the cherry shiney red draws me in like a moth to a flame..and thanks for the intro/demo of the minikeyboard/controller..keenly waiting to see what your gonna do with it!

Josh, I really like your robot....can't wait to see him in operation. I am interested in how that new power supply turns out. Keep up the good work!

@Rgordon thanks I'm anxious to get him moving around too , but I realized robots kinda move around like a blind toddler at times and I need to make bumpers to protect both Jarvis's base, paint job , and furniture... Here's my idea.. Cut a bumper from 1/4" plywood and wrap the edges with rubber hose. I will try to make it discreet the drawing is exaggerated a bit.

Under the edges of the bumpers I will hide sensors pointed straight down for cliff avoidance on front and rear...

OK so trying to customize the LCD bezel , I taped the led bar I made with Teflon tape to reduce the likely hood it will get stuck. The idea is to epoxy around , let cure , and pop out the led bar , then sand and see how it worked.

OK the led bar is fitted into the frame. This is a great opportunity for 3d printing in the future. Just for now its plenty good and will either be painted or coated with spray on rubber.

Josh.. I am also in process of making bumpers for my robot Questor. Questor is large enough so that if his ping, ping radar or IR sensors fail to see an object in his path then considerable damage could occur to furniture or other items. Or, heaven forbid, if he bumps into a person, I want a switch to actuate and shut down the drive motors immediately. Then, based on which bumper switch is actuated, Questor would make a decision on which direction to move to get clear.

So, I searched the internet for ribbon switches, tape switches, etc. and found that they are very expensive (aprrox. $25.00 per foot). I decided to set about inventing my own but was unsure of what to use.

I had an old tape measure that would not lock any more. I was going to throw it out. Then I thought..hmmm.maybe I could cut off two pieces (what ever length I need) of the metal tape measure, strip the paint off of it and make a bumper switch out of it. The prototype I made functions as expected and it seems to perfect for this app. The only thing I may need to worry about is rust

The next step is to figure out what to use to cap the ends to make it better looking and for mounting. Also maybe so sort of rubber covering. Or I could just paint the top piece of tape measure.

Josh...do we have a WIKI site yet?

No wiki yet lol , I'm waiting till the revolution products to come out and then it will be built but I'm taking notes and ideas anyone has.

So I'm maaaaad- I purchased a DC to DC 250 watt PSU and received it physically broken from mp3car.com! I emailed them expressing the importance that I needed this PSU like.... Yesterday... I'm awaiting a response tomorrow I will email again if there isn't one. I paid for 2 day shipping to have it before the weekend so they better make this right. Here's pics ( its probably repairable without a problem but if it doesn't fix it then I can't return it)

Besides the obvious power supply setback the robot office has been pretty active the past couple days.