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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!
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
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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