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