Hazbot
Australia
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I thought I would start a fun forum on things we would like our completed Robots to do. As you may or may not be aware, I'm working on Bob waking up in the morning and coming into the kitchen to give me the Weather and Local Traffic reports. I'm working on this but would be interested to know what other users at EZ-Robots would like to have their completed builds do.
Other things that come to mind is.
A Robot I can play chess with
A Robot than comes on as a sentry and checks of intruders
A Robot that can tell me the footy scores
A Robot that can pick up my socks in the lounge room and call "Danger , Danger " before my wife finds them.
Share your ideas people, lets have some fun on this subject 
make shore when you get a netbook it has SSD drive,most dont if you robot falls or bumps into something,then the drive will go bad,on SSD IT WONT GO BAD plus you get more speed from a SSD DRIVE
Shall do..Thanks RM...
Now on the hunt for SSD Netbook..
Bob gets a Brain. (Project Brains on Board) begins
Looked at all the options. RobotMaker - the Aspire one d270 series has a hack option of replacing the hard drive with a SSD. The store owner assured me a $69 SSD fits perfectly into replace the HDD if required. Of all the netbooks this model fits the bill,Windows 7, light weight, wifi, blue tooth, SSD adaptable for $284 Aust. The other option was a SSD dedicated netbook and they are few and quites expensive with low memory. So now the new fun begins - can somebody stop that Robot .. Bob come back here now !
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any netbook you can change to SSD drive,WINDOWS 7 is a not a great choice for a robot.it iuses more battery life and less speed then WINDOWS XP PRO IF you look at every robot made by the big companies on the new and old robot designs NONE use WINDOWS 7 all use WINDOWS XP PRO ,so ask you self why,its not money,or they never heard of windows 7
Can Windows XP Pro do Voice recognition? If not one of the best features of EZ-B is useless. What about motion tracking? Same issue.
Dave Schulpius
yes it has it built in,voice needs to be trained i setting for it to work better
My Kitchen buddy -
Presently Robot "Bob" is a great companion in the kitchen. He acts as a voice controlled DJ - playing music as I wash the dishes, plays tracks as I call them and makes a nervous chirp sound if I bang a plate or make a loud noise dropping cutlery. He tells me a joke or two and gives me a verbal update on the weather. His arms are handy for holding t-towels and sponges then passing them to me when I ask for them. At present I'm trying to get a voice activated radar weather map display via a website command on his chest (the netbook display screen). If I yell at him he comes back at me with a dozen or so clever comebacks I gave him.
Absolutely Awesome stuff RM, Your robots are the house-bots that every household will have, just like how computers are now a must for every home and business (we have 8). Your developing the Apple Mac of the future, not just a play thing but a tool that can control the use of power in the home, act as a sentry when we are away on holidays and all those things your robots do - it's magnificent. I'm so glad your out there pushing the evolution of all this stuff.