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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!
I also have a top secret robot i am coming out with too.
Here's my first 3d object , its basic. It is a mount for ezb to sit in. I won't print this , I will make a better one.
What's so weird is when I snapped a picture of this and post it the image is distorted? ::shrug:: I will post other practice examples.
OK so I decided to pull Jarvis head out and start mounting the neck. I want to make to most dramatic movements. My previous tests were OK but realistically didn't do what I wanted. That being said I I switched everything around backwards to see how I like the side to side tilt being highest in the upper neck. I like this the best...
The top of the Omnibot torso is too far down for me to surface mount the servo. I believe I will need to use 1/4" ply and cut out a frame for the servo to mount into that will be very strong but light in comparison to fiberglass. This is one if those moments a 3d printer would have been handy for sure. I haven't accomplished much more than figuring out what direction to mount the neck but I'm calling it a night. Goodnight all.
If I remember right, hobby/craft stores have 1/8" ply used in dollhouse making that's pretty light and strong. Also, what do you think of making the up/down movement the top joint and the side to side the second?
@Troy one of the brackets I epoxied together so that limits the configuration now. I believe this setup would be best. The point of rotation for the forward and backward movement just needs to clear the edge of the original neck. I already have some of that wood. Its bass plywood. I should be able to cut two pieces and glue them together as the spacer to get it high enough. I will try to get these cut , and predrilled for mounting holes this evening.
I don't want Jarvis to have a freakishly long neck so it will only be as tall as it needs to be to clear the edges when it moves and that's it.
You're really good at fabricating so I know you will sort it out.
@troy thanks for the uplifting comment , I look forward to seeing more from yours too
Good news. I purchased JOSHSTARNESLABS.COM and JOSHSTARNES.COM as well. I believe I will grab up an individual domain for the Jarvis project since its so big and upload pictures and such.
Domains available JARVIS2000.COM JARVISOMNIBOT2000.COM CUSTOMOMNIBOT2000.COM
Any suggestions or you like one of these? I will grab one this weekend when I get paid.