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Jarvis Hacked Omnibot 2000 W Pc ,Ezb &Amp; Vacuum Inside By Josh Starnes
Jarvis is a project inspired in part by Jarvis the AI that belongs to Tony Stark in the movie and comic book series IRON MAN. This is my first real robot with no previous experience. I dreamed of making a couple of robots one was a vacuum robot with 4 motors. Brush, impeller, and one motor.driving each wheel. This was back in 98 before roomba was thought of. Lol my drawings as a kid even resembled one. Now that I am older and have tools like EZ Robot I can start making these dreams come true. It has been a learning experience and I hope to learn more. Jarvis is basically my personal computer but also will have a few key features. Goals are that he can help maintain a home by vacuuming and sweeping the floors. My fish need to be taken care of while I am away so scheduled feedings and turning tank lights on in the morning and off at night are in the works. Jarvis can answer calls , act as a telepresence device because he has a camera and screen. He would be great for security by detecting motion, taking pictures or video and sounding.alarm if intruders are detected. Just for fun I would like Jarvis to bring cold beers to the table when asked to which I am sure would be a great conversation piece. Jarvis will be autonomous in some.situations and because of the wireless video link by wifi and wireless keyboard and mouse, I can be checking facebook on either the upstairs or downstairs Tv while Jarvis is roaming the house or cleaning. Thanks to 4g USB antenna Jarvis is not limited to my home and can.take control quest (or kill.switch.lol) from a smart phone or laptop. This makes the Jarvis project.show friendly as I can take.him to show off without lugging around a laptop or other equipment. Also i do plan to somhow work in being able to control his base movements , head ect from a ps3 bluetooth.controller. I'm still thinking of other tasks Jarvis could do but I gotta get this guy together so there is no time to waste!
February 1012 when I first received the Tomy Omnibot 2000 . My starting main parts were/are asus mini itx motherboard, 8 GB ram , Win 7, 250gb Western Digital Hard Drive, Nvidia 560ti graphics card, 2 ghz AMD 25watt tdp dual core CPU, Thermaltake 430 watt psu, 460 watt apc backup, Ez Board Kit w EZ WIRELESS CAM , Shark vx63 cordless vacuum, 4 Power Sonic batteries 12v 9ah , power HD 240 oz servos, hitec 645mg 130oz in servos, hitec 5995tg 400 oz in servos , Robotzone.gearbox 5 to 1 ratio for shoulders and other electronics.
At this time im getting the body ready to start putting things together. The fun begins!
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.