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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!
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.
Spec. Minimum Capacity: 5000mAh Configuration: 3S1P / 11.1v / 3Cell Constant Discharge: 20C Peak Discharge (10sec): 30C Pack Weight: 412g Pack Size: 145 x 49 x 26mm Charge Plug: JST-XH4.18 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.