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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!
Your doing great Josh. Projects always evolve as they go. Improvements can always be made later as well. Its good your not one of those "people" who boast about what they are going to do or what they have and never show any proof. I'm just saying....hypothetically.
That reminds me. I need to uncheck a box in my preferences.
Looking great Josh. I assume you've got the motherboard and power board issues sorted now?
@Techno, on Melvins showcase you can remove half the posts since they are pointless (and it's 49 pages if you see dead people).
@Glickclik is right, evolution of a robot is natural. Improvements made or problems that weren't seen at the start need to be tackled.
Are you going to only use hot glue to hold the HDD caddy in there or do you plan to use a more permanent method eventually? Hard disc drives vibrate a fair bit so it may eventually vibrate itself loose.
Jarvis is coming along brilliantly! I am so excited to see him moving around.
The hot glue is temporary until I drill holes and run a bolt through , I will use a couple of rubber washers to absorb vibration. I have a thing for a quiet PC
The hot glue will keep things in place while I'm putting things together, drilling, mounting bla bla bla.. Very light things I will just keep the hot glue but I really prefer screws whenever possible for a secure but removable mount.
@troy/glickclick I totally agree, when you are working on a robot plans easily change as you go, sometimes we find ideas that work better and find some ideas don't work well at all lol. That's really what's fun though , the unplanned stuff.
@Rich I have not installed all the power components yet. I need to wire in the fuse box , run power and grounds. I want the video card to have its own regulated power supply.
The nvidia card needs 12 volts. I can turn it off in windows but it does need its own 12v regulator that can handle 15 amps continuous , maybe 20 amps to be safe at 12 volts. This is because once the new PSU is installed i will be powering it by 12 volts. Since the video card already takes 12 volts its ideal that from the ac to DC adapter.
This is what I'm thinking for the setup , for the nvidia card I was thinking having maybe 4 x 5 amp low dropout 12v regulators to ensure the video card never gets more that the 12 volts it needs. The ac to DC power supply could be internal or external. Honestly I'm thinking external for obvious charge docking reasons I rather be connecting to Dc12v instead of 110v ac.
OK tiny problem lol , apparently even the ldo regulators are too much difference ( 1.5 volts) so I won't have a regulator. The voltage of my batteries is 12.6 volts so maybe I will just not have it hooked up while on battery and have a completely seperate external plug for the video card only while its plugged up to the AC to DC power supply. This makes the most sense as I don't have a need for high end graphics when its roaming around. Hopefully I can get the onboard graphics to work fine when there is no power to the video card but its still in the slot. - crossing fingers I get that to work this evening.
This is the charger I believe I will get. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008I0IZ7O/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1370456309&sr=8-5&pi=SL75
Its cheap but great reviews. It has the wattage range I was looking for.
JOSH on the LDO never heard of one wth a dropout of 1.5 volt normal regulators are 1.25 volts and dropout regulators are .5 volts and below t.hats why they are called Low Dropout Regulators.
Doing a very good JOB on JARVIS.