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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!
@R2D2 you can buy them with servos but for now I have the 1501mg 240 oz in servos. They are strong just not as accurate. I may upgrade in the future which is the benefit of using the gearbox because it fits any standard sized servo.
OK so I will need to test the power supply that I repaired. Checking my work is a must. I will power it on and as long as it shows 12 volts like the other power supply then I will continue the test. The next step if that is successful is to hook up the first DC M4 ATX PSU to the motherboard and hard drive and the second has been modified to only put out regulated 12 volts and connect it directly to the video card. Then use the PC like normal and test for functionality. I am thinking of this because if the PC and video card can both be powered by 12 volts then at that point I just need a 20-30 amp Ac to DC power supply coming from the wall to power them. Then its only a matter of a couple relays that it can swap from the External DC power to the internal batteries.
OK I found bits of info about the video card current draw. The power supply is rated for 250 watts max and at the most they were able to get the card to draw 248 watts. So it would be close but its worth testing. Here are the charts I checked.
See Jarvis doubles as my home PC so if I want to play some games like WOW or something I can. I don't want to limit myself. If this fails the backup plan is to power but the motherboard and graphics card externally then whenever I want Jarvis to go mobile it can switch to battery.
JOSH you ready for the maker faire its tuesday. MY home PC'S going to have JARVIS controlled with flat screen just like in IRON MAN ,i even see a a flat table with a screen just like in IRON MAN2
No its Saturday the 15th and Friday is the private maker faire that is invite only
OK ,good luck JOSH at the faire,and hope JARVIS makes it in one piece.
Here's a pic of my brother and Jarvis Torso. He is 5' 9" so you get a idea of how big he is.
I found a awesome monitor for the price that is a End of life item from 2012 significantly marked down. I have never used true dual monitor so I figured its about time Jarvis get this feature
. It took me about 5 min to have it going and my eyes are already thanking me for getting this monitor. The old 19 inch looks blurry after looking at the new one. Great buy and hopefully playing with dual monitor will show me some ways I can use the 7 inch monitor on Jarvis belly for telepresence or something.