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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!
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.