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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!
Josh.. I am also in process of making bumpers for my robot Questor. Questor is large enough so that if his ping, ping radar or IR sensors fail to see an object in his path then considerable damage could occur to furniture or other items. Or, heaven forbid, if he bumps into a person, I want a switch to actuate and shut down the drive motors immediately. Then, based on which bumper switch is actuated, Questor would make a decision on which direction to move to get clear.
So, I searched the internet for ribbon switches, tape switches, etc. and found that they are very expensive (aprrox. $25.00 per foot). I decided to set about inventing my own but was unsure of what to use.
I had an old tape measure that would not lock any more. I was going to throw it out. Then I thought..hmmm.maybe I could cut off two pieces (what ever length I need) of the metal tape measure, strip the paint off of it and make a bumper switch out of it. The prototype I made functions as expected and it seems to perfect for this app. The only thing I may need to worry about is rust
The next step is to figure out what to use to cap the ends to make it better looking and for mounting. Also maybe so sort of rubber covering. Or I could just paint the top piece of tape measure.
Josh...do we have a WIKI site yet?
No wiki yet lol , I'm waiting till the revolution products to come out and then it will be built but I'm taking notes and ideas anyone has.
So I'm maaaaad- I purchased a DC to DC 250 watt PSU and received it physically broken from mp3car.com! I emailed them expressing the importance that I needed this PSU like.... Yesterday... I'm awaiting a response tomorrow I will email again if there isn't one. I paid for 2 day shipping to have it before the weekend so they better make this right. Here's pics ( its probably repairable without a problem but if it doesn't fix it then I can't return it)
Besides the obvious power supply setback the robot office has been pretty active the past couple days.
That power supply is poopie. Hopefully they'l fix that soon.
Things are looking great. I love what you got for a keyboard much better than the one I got.
Josh as far as bumpers I was thinking of connecting some plates to those old robosapien bumper things I sent you instead of using it's original plastic things.
OK so bad got worse. Now the motherboard is not powering on. The power and status lights show power but never turns on. Tried two different power switches. :/ so I'm going to try the warranty route or just buy a whole new board as there are alternatives for around 60 dollars.
OK so both my Asus M4a88t-i deluxe motherboard and The M4 250 watt power supply have been sent off for an RMA . right now Asus thinks this is something they can repair on the motherboard... We will see if they can. Mp3car.com apologized claiming they didn't get my first email and sent a RMA prepaid label for that too. Looks like it will be 7 to 10 days before I get replacements
@Sam sure there's nothing wrong with a old fashion bumper to detect a wall.
Tiny update I'm waiting on the replacement power supply and the motherboard to be repaired by Asus. I may break down and just buy another board and I will post it here. Also I'm considering upgrading the CPU but we will seem the current CPU is a 25 watt dual core AMD am3 athlon 2. I'm considering replacing it with the AMD Athlon II X2 270 Reg or core 3.4hgz 1mb x 2 cache http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953 If Asus cannot repair it or replace the motherboard I may just get a 60 dollar atom board. So let's cross our fingers Asus can work some magic!
they're crossed.