My name is Steve and I am excited and looking forward to receiving my ez robot kit that I recently ordered. I have 2 roomba 4210,s (Serial 4210 041116 E 5765). I think they are too old to have the SCI required feature. My receipt for this unit was jan, 2005. It appears it may difficult to find an appropriate osmo dongle? Irobot still sells the Create robot, which I think has the req. feature to operate w/ezrobot. I am concerned about buying a used newer unit on Ebay. I already have a new battery for my 400 series discovery white model, that would work on the bare bones Create.
My grandkids got me going on robotics again after I operated my 25 yr old James comadore robot. James didn,t obey many of voice commands anymore. I also got my 16 yr old Lynx project going, that operates on DOS. Time for something new. Are there any cons for the Irobot Create? Thanks Steve S
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Robot-Doc
Good Luck! You are going to LOVE EZB!
MovieMaker have u operated your Icreate w EZB? I like having the EZ robot community, very practical and excellent idea. Thanks Steve
"A hamster is positioned on the back side of the Create robot inside a clear plastic sphere. By running in the sphere, the hamster controls where the robot moves and the robot's speed."
Maybe EZB could be interfaced with servos and Sonar and mounted on a multi legged platform? So when the hamster runs the ball in any direction the robot would crawl there. Imaging what an out of control and random robot you would have?
Steve S, maybe you could move in this direction? Of course then you's have a robot you would need to feed and clean up after. (Robot poop?)
Alan
Here's a link to my blog
If you will look under the projects pictues, you will see marti which is the robot I made out of a roomba.
correction, not the roomba, but the i-Create.
I gives full SCI commands to the older models
send me $5 and then ship it back to me when done with it
i have over 30 IROBOT roomba's,AND I USED IT TO CHANGE THE FIRMWARE ON IT with the OSMO HACKER
second i upgrade the motors to a much higher torque and h-bridge design
and added a second battery and special switching circuit to charge the batteries
looking at next to add another optical feedback for the motor to make it quadrature output
DAVE on the hamster idea,what look better is a gyro design inside it or under it
there are many neato lidar hacks to use it as a navigation sensor
I was starting my EZB build with my 2nd roomba white 4000, but it developed a stopping issue after running away and getting stuck. I have resolved my bluetooth range problem by adding a cord from USB port and clipping the dongle on top of my laptop. Since that incident of getting stuck, it keeps stopping after a min. or two of movements(maybe I damaged a drive motor or circuit?) If I re-initialize of movement panel, it might go a little longer than stop again. I did repair the sound issue by replacing the speaker w one from radio shack. I am not sure if cleaning both roomba drives would help?
I now started my EZB build w my Create. It moves much faster than the roomba,s. When I slow it down on the movement panel, it no longer goes straight. I am trying to mount things allowing acces to the buttons on the Create. I have read there is a on/off toggle pin on the cargo bay pins? I am hoping I don,t encounter any more runaway issues. Since adding the USB cable, I have successfully navigated it to different rooms utilizing the camera without issues. Maybe I need some type of safety switch to shut it down.
I have built a 2 servo head w camera, that I successfully controlled w a nitendo remote. I made a mistake of using the recorder with the remote and now I can no longer save files with the recorder. It must have been too big of a file. I tried updating ARC, creating a new file with one servo, but still could not save a file with the recorder. I even tried a restore on my laptop, to the date prior to the file, but the restore failed stating unspecified error, did not restore. I also tried a new file and saving to the cloud, but no luck. I am learning and having fun. Love my EZ-Robot kit.
Thankyou to everone who responded. Dave, Moviemaker, Robotdoc, Skater, etc. I will do pics.
Steve S
If you need a drive motors i have many cheap or my new higher torque design on how to build it
STEVE S here is a link to my EZB roomba project
my EZB roomba project
Also made a turtlebot platform using roomba with ROS LINUX software
Steve S