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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!
That's a great point , thankyou for bringing that to my attention. If I need not power I will try that. As of right now im considering swapping which servo I'm using in the shoulder. Honestly I'm concerned about the 1501mg as the lateral shoulder servos so I am thinking I will put the 5995tg up there and the 1501mg actuating the elbow.
Different threads are watched so I'm adding the QR code navigation test to jarvis's thread. This is a system all the robots will use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7CzLF8z7uY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Josh will it be a problem if the robot is in motion when it sees the QR code? When the robot detects it, does it have to stay in the frame long enough for it to recognize it?
That's a good question and the next steps in testing it. If the camera cannot read Qr codes in motion then that may be solved by slowing the robot down or the robot stop to look for a code. So far some movement has not been a problem.
Well done Josh. I saw the video and maybe it wont affect it too bad.
I will put the camera on the roomba and then see how it scans while moving. In all honesty a indoor robot shouldn't be moving very fast so it should be ok.
Try adjusting the frame rate during your testing too. That may help.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I have turkey dinner at work today so hopefully I won't want to just fall asleep when I walk in the door.