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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!
Lol! Hahaha. Nice to see your getting around. JARVIS is looking good! Next he needs guns.
Guns on a robot , that's coming soon
I have two air soft guns to pull a over the shoulder Johnny 5 toolbox thing.
OK I picked up a hard drive caddy from a old emachines desktop. I may use hot glue to hold things in place while the figure out fitment.
I am dry fitting pieces , I should have the motherboard tommorow and I can start putting the large electronic boards in. The black box with white writing is the charging circuit. Hanging from the top is the hard drives. Center is the PSU I just received Friday.I got a hard drive caddy from emachines too only not using it for hard drives,JOSH SSD is a lot better hard drives not good for robots.
I will get a SSD eventually but right not it will be a hard drive and I will have a power profile specifically for JARVIS to reduce usage and turn off the external graphics card. The hard drive will probably turn off after 1 minute of no use. This way once everything is loaded into memory/ ram , the hard drive is not spooled up all the time.
Be careful your robot does not fall,thats one problem other is high current usage. Good place to get them is amazon or newegg ,i got 6 200gb SSD so will have plenty for all my robots.
OK so I starting putting the "big" equipment in the robot torso. The motherboard is already fitted so now its the video card. I had to trim wood away from the frame to get it to fit.
I get to fit all this in more inside! It took me part of last night and today to get windows reinstalled, the motherboard drivers and the video card to work in such a way I can toggle it on and off and then use the onboard graphics when not in use.