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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!
servocity has some very heavy duty cables,ones you got JOSH ,dont look good for high current servo's ,they look like a #26 wire what i do is i make my own cables and use the correct gauge of wire for each type of servo need to pick the gauge to match the stall current of the servo,same for h-bridges too
I'll try these and upgrade if needed. I bought these because of price send plugs are already installed.
yea you need a special crimper tool,you need different sizes also,i bout a lot of different ones to have on hand ,never know when one is needed,i like building custom cables for many reason IDC ribbons are mostly the hardest and crimpers are high cost
Ok so I picked up the screws and washers to make the elbow joint site maybe I can get those together after work.
The f12 arctic fans have arrived. Two for dusty two for Jarvis. I will test the flow of these fans tonight. The box says they have a 6 year warranty
XT60 high current connectors came in so I can solder leads and connectors to the battery packs and other areas of Jarvis.I'm not sure how I feel about this. I was thinking of putting Mr clock radio head I have inside the Robbie Sr helmet. I do have the additional challenge of finding a new place for the ez robot camera I took before and after pics of camera looking through the dome and it's not that bad. Take a look guys. This is mostly a looks issue and tell me what you think. Remember I have a neck that turns tilts and nods for this to attach to.
Pic looking outside through dome
Same pic without looking through the dome. You can see some distortion in the first picture.