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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!
Oh yes , trace plexiglass and light it from the inside with leds. That's a idea.
The arch reactor was removed and frame will be painted.
I have a spare in case I don't like the painted look.... But I believe I will
The painter suggested I tint the canister like you would tint tail lights. That's usually black thinned out with clear mixed together as well. I plan on lighting the canister from the back so I will consider this. Other wise it will just be left clear. And the purple top painted.Thanks for the updates Josh! Dang I wish I could go to Makerfaire too!...any chance of a "live stream" I believe the color is cherry red?
You could paint just the red part to match and leave the chrome.
Thanks Sam , well see hmm
OK new thing i gotta consider is the sensors in the hands/ claws. I drilled out holes for the ultrasonic sensors but the spacing is about 1/2" wider meaning I will need to have wire leads coming from a transducer to the board. Here's the pics.
Basically I'm thinking since I gotta hot.glue in sensors anyways maybe I could slightly tilt them to shorten the min distance? Or does everyone think just leaving them straight is best? I may make a separate post about this...
Straight alignment...
Here's the idea of tilting the sensor a bit , but I don't know if this would be necessary.Hmmm.... would tilting it damage the sensor? Well I was more thinking the board.
The sensor itself would be in the hole and wire leads running to the control board.