There is a website that I saw awhile back that has all of the plans to build Huewy, Dewy, and Lewy.

My first robot was build around 1959. I was living on a farm. It was made with dryer vents and lights and speaker. But, it did not do much of anything except look like a robot. So, maybe it does not qualify of being an actual robot. Later on, I built Dave Heiserman's Rodney bot. It was a major task. When I got it built, I called up Heiserman for advice. He told me that if I followed the book exactly, it would not work. Just go get a completely factor unit called the RB5X. I bought two of those. One with the arm, one without. Then I build a Hero1 robot. I guess that would've qualified me. So, Hero1 was the first. But, not of those robots did anything that made me happy. By then, I had a really nice computer that could talk and also understand me. It was nice. But it was not practical to put that $15K computer in the robot. It simply would not fit. After many attempts to build the robot that I wanted, I realized that the technology was not here. So, I trashed the robots and gave up. Next many years later I figured the technology would have been better. so, I started with parallax's Bo-Bot. I built it with a basic stamp. Soon I upgrade to the BSII, then I moved to the Arduino and Upgraded it to the 32 bit version. I was still not satisfied with it. All of the many robots that I made could do many things,but not the good stuff. I got tired of having a robot that could do Great Optical Avoidance , but not much of anything else. When I discovered the EZB, I became very excited. I saw the QBO and bought one of those. But, Qbo like many others in his generation can do ONE thing very good. But, when you put it all together and ask QBO to do many things at once, he will fail. So, his but is UP for $ale. Ten years ago, I built the Leaf project. I still have him and he has 23 emotions and many of the items I want. But, he has his limits. I have tried on the EZB to do many things at once, I EZB was giving me some trouble doing that. So, I put TWO EZBs and a Third EZB4 on order. The Chat- bots are getting very promising and with the W3 running Windows8 looks promising. But, I am failing in my old age and can't do much of the things I used to. I am building ONE last project. Project Sunshine. She is mostly apart. But, at one point I got her to work except being Paraplegic.

What I am trying to build is a robot that:

a. Is centered around a very smart chatbot. b. Be able to understand speech and give you an intelligent answer. c. If it doesn't know the answer, to look it up on the net and find the answer. d. A robot that can be taught and has a LEARN function. e. give me time of day, month, day of week and be a calendar. f. Obstacle avoid and maneuver through the house. g. have working arms and hands h. recognize faces and tell me who that are. I. play games like 20Questions, clueso. J. Understand a Natural language with slang. k. Be a Watchman using his sensors. l. be able to put up wikipedia and google and other stuff. j. be able to have a powerful web search engine that can find most anything. k. be able to do complicated Math problems using WolfRamAlpha. l. Have a personality and emotions. m. be able to recharge when needed. n. Be able to be expanded if I have other things. (I can't think of them right now.) o. Be able to have enough emotions to form a friendship (simulated.) p. My computers have most all of these capabilities but that is running each set by itself. I need to find a way to put it all together. q. It would be nice if the robot has an Aesthetic value. I think Tony will be doing that for people. r. Speak with understandably perfect grammar. s. Be able to be taught things and maintain it's database with data. and be able to call up those things later. t. be able to think with Fuzzy Logic and make Smart Guesses. u. Be able to program itself using the environment for data. v. I was hoping to achieve Singularity in my lifetime, but I guess it won't, so we have to Simulate. w. Have interchangeable tools for the hands. Example Drill, forceps, etc. x. be able to record it's visual environment and make notes. For instance, if Dad says, Where is my hat, the robot would look in his memory and say "at 2pm it was on the sofa underneath a pillow. y. be able to leave notes for other members of the family,like " John called Helen at 9AM and asked her to call him at 8pm today." "Bobby, I am glad you are home from school. You mother told me to remind you that your after-school snake is in the refrigerator." z. Be able to Hug you when you need a Hug.

Can't think of anything right now. I am suffering a headache from a sinus infection. Anyway, that is part of what I want. Some things will have to be simulated

@Doombot , The motors that Toymaker is offering are quite nice and powerful. You can over volt them to make them run faster and stronger. They are 12vdc motors and I ran them overnight at 24vdc with no problems. The pot in them is an awesome feature and works nicely with ARC when attached to a ADC port. However they do have limits. I was going to use them on my B9 arms but sadly even when doubled up my arms are just too heavy and long for these motors. A lot of my weight will be at the end of the arm and that makes it harder for these motors to lift my needed load. I'll still be using these motors that Tony sent me but not to lift the heavy B9 arms. If you're interested I made a couple vids of my tests trying to get them to work for me. I have them posted in my B9 project here:

My Lost in Space B9 EZB Build

However here they are if you don't want to make the trip:

There was a little discussion that my computer power supply wasn't able to supply enough amps to the motors to do the job but I think it was just fine. If anything was undersized it would have been my wiring and connection types but I doubt it. I hope it works for you because these are great little motors.

Sorry to hijack your cool thread Tony! Just trying to help.

@Dave Schulpius About how many pounds do you think the motors could raise? I am curious?

I was able to lift about 3 lbs suspended one foot out from a set of motors running in tandem. Also that was running at 24 vdc (12 volts higher then they are rated for). When I extended the weight out to 24" it could not lift the 3 lbs. Not sure what the break point for length is but not much longer then the 1 foot I was able to get work.

@Doombot, with the EZ:1 arms (with 2 Bosch motors at the shoulder) they have a limit of picking up a 750ml bottle of liquid which I am happy with. The EZ:1 arms are fairly light weight to start with which helps. On your design, I think you will need to use the window motors for the shoulders and maybe you could use 2 Bosch units at the elbow and single units for the wrist and claw etc. Some people here have used the Kangaroo X2 to convert this type of drive unit to servo (PWM) control, which would be convenient for control by the EZ-B where they would act like a regular servo. I will send you 4 Bosch units so you could try them on an arm if you want to.

Toymaker, People like your work. Robotics utilizing touch tones was defnitley on the cutting edge in the late 70's! A very ambious project that shows your great interest in robotics. Your Big Trak XTR with PC com port, IOS, and Android support was amazing. I hope this link of James (built in the mid 80,s), my first programable robot works.

James

So many robots on the EZ Robot forum and I love exploring all the cool builds. Steve S

The first robot I soldered together was a kit made by Heathkit called the HERO Jr. It was fun to build and had some voice capable features as well as sonar sensors.