The simplest, although possibly not the least expensive is to just remove the wheelchair electronics (except possibly the battery charger) and connect the motors to a Sabertooth 2x25 (or similar) H-Bridge.  Most wheelchair motor conversions use this method.  It is possible to tap into the joystick controls and send the correct signal controls to the existing controller, but none of hte wheelchair companies document them, and each one is a little different, so it would take a lot of experimentation.  (I have also seen someone just hook up servos to the joystick.  Seems a bit cludgy to me, but works I guess).

Alan

So a Sabertooth sounds like something to look at then I can decide what type of motors will work as I am just using the smaller H bridges right now for 6 volt motors . Looking at Kijiji for listings of used wheel chairs and heading out to the huge Flee market we have here this Afternoon to see what I can find as there are also many Hobby venders with great deals on all sorts of stuff and possibly an old wheel chair ,you never know til you look. Another thing I may find is a child's electric car that they can sit in and drive outside. These have some really powerful high torque electric motors too. I have a bunch of arms and hands from old Robosapien V2 and Media bots that have fingers almost as large as human to modify for Endo skeleton arms, just need newer servos for those. They work the hands using a wire pulley system all the way to the fingers. As long as the drum sticks can be held on they will work great. My brother is going to work on the chest and back plate adding modified shock absorbers to give it the wide shoulders and waist movements...This is going to be a Fun project, Thanks again Alan.

Yeah, Wheelchair motors are overkill for a lot of robots.   They can carry 300 lbs at a good speed.  The Power wheels car motors are much smaller and have fear boxes, and can easily move a 50-80 lb bot.  I have a couple of the motors, but am looking for wheels for them right (the gearbox axle is kind of strange.  Will take some work if I want something other than  wheels from the same toy)

Windshield Wiper and car door window lifters are also good choices for smaller but still powerful bots.

Ah yes, the classic wind shield motor mod, I have seen this used in other robotics Forums, Classic!

Yessss! I did find the perfect wheel platform for the T-800 ! The kiddy electric ride in cars really have come  far in tech since I was a kid. Not just a single battery and motor,talking about a kids version of a Lambo with dual  heavy duty 12 volt motors,yes 2. Also 2 12 volt batteries with a convenient recharging port! Plenty of extra wiring inside and even high performing head light system....Wish I was a 5 year old!  The power lasts something like 4 hours if a kid inside but if just a robot and plastic body removed could last way longer! great price brand new in the box!

Following some example programs on this forum from some members like the one with the Laser turret and target overlay, there are some great creative robot enthusiastic people here! Giving me some ideas for the Terminator while I wait for a month before the chrome head and neck gets to Canada by the slowest shipping method, LOL! I would have to say that buying the EZB camera just before Christmas was my greatest online purchase all year in 2018. I had no idea what amazing things could be done with this cam, and so easy to apply the programming with the wealth of videos provided by DJ and the EZ team. Does anyone know if it would be Illegal to have the Terminator bot wielding an actual replica of an Israel Army Mini Uzi? I bought online a few years ago and it is made to the exact specs and materials used to build the actual 9MM bullet Uzi's. In terminator 1 Arnold does use this to blow away many umm Cops I think. Mine is just a copper BB version that uses compressed Co2 to fire. but if I just use empty BB clip and have the robot fire it, it makes the exact same sound as a real mini Uzi cycling at 950 cycles per minute. On a stage this could look very real and dangerous but sure would add to the realism of a theatrical Terminator! Like, if I paint the tip of the gun orange just like on all Airsoft BB rifles, it should be legal right? I do have also a Wal-Mart M4 airsoft machine gun but looks totally fake due to the see through plastic and it is much longer, not practical for a robot really. Although I did modify it to shoot much faster by using the 11.1 Lipo instead of the 7.4 battery it came with. The M4 also has a built in L.E.D. to shine light on the 300 round glow in the Dark green BB's so it looks just like real bullet fire tracer rounds. Great for Airsoft battles with friends outside but not for shooting on a Music-band stage in a bar, LOL!!It could take an eye out as the 11.1 Lipo proved it could blow holes right through my ceiling! Well anyway ,the EZ cam used to identify human faces, colors and shapes is going to be fun to use to target my guitar player on stage, ahhh still early ,let us see when it is ready!

Well, I do know that EZ Robot inc. does not like their products, or robots in general, to be used in any type of anarchy, mayhem or world dominating plot. With that said you could build your uber robotic BB gun and post it outside at night to patrol and guard your garbage cans against rouge raccoons.  :'(

:DAha ha ya the Racoon thing I did already, caught some funny night vision stuff when the Racoon was trying to break in to the cottage every night through the screen window on the porch,it was smart and knew how to break in and open the refrigerator door we had there. The BB gun did target the little guy and eventually he stopped trying it... I guess I could just have the robot have the Uzi in a Holster and mainly wave the drum sticks and have the beating motion using the sound servo settings,there are actually some interesting arm movements that can be added to a script using the Recorder option too.Fascinating the more I look into these servo settings. As I was looking at buying a Lidar navigating sensor I discovered what would be a great add on camera to go along with EZ-cam. This is way cheaper than the other Thermal cams that came out last year. The 33 version of it is ideal for Robot vision( longer range than the 90 and better detail) to detect humans or animals outside even in sunlight  or total darkness..Think of the Westworld Gunslinger tracking a human in the old 70's movie,this is now reality!Will be perfect for a Terminator bot outdoors looking for people to interact with....https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=140&v=Q6coj7Ca_aM

So I am on this learning curve right now to design the neck head movements of the Terminator project, Thirsty for knowledge on the regular or HDD servos and what is the difference between a servo Linear actuator and a regular servo? I am thinking that since the new Linear actuators seem to resemble what were used for a long time with RC car steering mechanisms and what my brother uses in Pneumatic air cylinder pistons to control fast moving Props for movies and stage shows. My bro was telling me to go with the Pneumo cylinders but I want the Bot to be able to move around the field at summer Festivals we have outside. Must be Electronic and mobile, with no Giant air compressor to haul around LOL! Does anyone know if these actuators are faster than regular servos with movement speeds? Also would the Linear servo handle more load as a piston push pull mechanism VS a motor or regular servo with a cable attachment? I am leaning on getting the Linear actuators to replace the fake chrome pistons that go on the Terminator head,neck,chest,back and the giant fake pistons that go at the hip Chest connection. The price of Linear actuators are expensive just like the more expensive high torque servos, so ya ..Decisions, decisions. https://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/linear-actuator-l16-100-63-12-p.html Now if I go check out the local hobby store here in town I can likely get much cheaper electronic servos used for Radio control vehicles like used for hobby Monster truck steering or Hobby R.C. airplanes.but not likely as large or powerful as these new ones from the robot store inventory. So I learn something new everyday, I had no idea that this existed,perfect for hands and finger movement!...https://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/dynalloy-flexinol-006-lt-actuator-wire.html Arnold had too much Flexinol wire in his jaw muscle,LOL! Sorry guys thought this was Hilarious!...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnrIdXWtOP8

I considered going Pneumo for a short time with my B9's arms. There is plenty of power you can put into a small space with less power needs them regular servos. It was tempting to use this method.  However in the end, like you I didn't want to find space for a air tank and compressor. The thing that really killed it for me was the noise. You will hear the compressor pumping air into the tank and the hiss of the air escaping when the piston moves. Maybe your brother know how to overcome these problems.

Linear actuators are hitting the market. Again like you said they are costly. Seems the faster they move the higher the price. [/font][/size][/color][/font][/size][/color][/font][/size][/font][/font][/size][/color][size=3][font=OpenSans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"][size=3][font=OpenSans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"]

I ended up buying a real nice Linear actuator from Progressive Automation for another part of my B9 (the bubble lifter). I haven't installed it yet but am real excited to upgread using this. If you order directly from PA they can custom build to your specs for no extra cost. Just choose what you need from a drop down list.

https://www.progressiveautomations.com/tubular-high-speed-linear-actuator

https://www.ebay.com/p/12vdc-High-Speed-5-9-6in-Linear-Actuator-DC-Motor-Stroke-150mm-Force-50n-Ts-ly/704186829

After playing with the drop down menu on the Progressive Automation website I see the price does change just a little as the stroke gets longer. However only by a few dollars. You can get strokes from 1" to 24" with a force range from 11 -33 lbs. It looks like the speeds will drop as force needs goes up. Fastest I see is about 9" a second. Slowest is about 3" a second.

Great vids Dave! That is what I was looking for some examples of Linear servo in motion. 9" per second is actually really fast for what I may need but again I need to balance with the cost. That Progressive web site is something to look at,so much selection!

And these guys have already done what I am doing, some others too I saw one video from 2015 so I am not the first but only difference I will have the entire body replicated and moving with actuators and another thing most people do not have the best robot controller EZ B! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV36d7EbNSQ

some of you guys may be building great large robots as well. A good secret on trying to make vinyl or plastic look just like real chrome. Do not use most of the Wal-Mart or Canadian Tire chrome paints,they do not really work. There is a very few that come close to chrome or more like a polished Aluminum if clear coated(The clear coats always kill the chrome shine effect for some chemical reaction or just the coating results in yellowed or dull appearance) There is a paint that works great called Spaz stix about 17 dollars for a small can but it really looks like Metal Chrome on any material and the secret is to really lay on a high Gloss black first and then sparingly add a thin top coat of the Chrome paint,Gently buff after for convincing Metal chrome shine. Then the company Alsa is great too but way more expensive,they do sell a regular aerosol can for $50.00 called Killer Chrome that looks so good,they use it in auto body shops to repair chrome bumper damage and they have a new one too that works better but too expensive called Easy-Chrome,100.00 for the minimum size,not worth it. Alsa also sells Chrome wraps that look so amazing you can wrap a car to look just like a chrome plated car! I have seen the Lamborgini's with this Black Chrome wrap that looks Jaw-dropping gorgeous. You can get these many colored wraps from Ebay and China way cheaper and easier to do yourself as they don't get damaged if you make a mistake and need to peel off the wrap. Just my 2 cents on Robot cosmetics,wraps can be used for anything as well....I am going to do this on parts of my Black Fiero GT like on the Big rear spoiler at the back as a Black chrome look,Hood with shiny Chrome area and the Pegasus Emblem,possibly the silver bottom side panels with Black Chrome. Also any future Robots of course, Cylon Centurian comes to mind!......update.....

After watching this youtuber, The Centurian just does not seem as menacing any more like what I remember as a kid, Possibly the Doctor Who Cyber-Man would be a cooler next build!.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYGSg3Tujw

And this one just made me cringe,LOL!!....https://youtu.be/BkLQdX4lkAA

Glad that vid was helpful. It was actually done by a friend of mine down in Australia by the name of Steve Neal. He's built a B9 robot that rivals any other I've seen.

Dave that is awesome, a Small world indeed!

Well The Terminator skull is landed in Ontario so it won't be too long for the delivery I hope but it may take time to go through more customs before it gets out for delivery here. I decided to strip down the Wow Wee Chimp Alive I had since the neck movement motors are very quick similar to servos and run at under 6 volts. Using my old 298 H bridge seems to do the trick for adding EZ-B controller, Now I just need to slow the motors down and write a program for the Terminator Head that will go on it. Also saved the Jaw movement motor and will add that so that Terminator Jaw will move when it talks " Give me your Clothes" " F___ You A__Hole" etc.. Here is the demo.... https://youtu.be/nH1soY1RDuc

Wow, that's crazy. LOL. Nice build so far.

Wow crazy,just saw this,could be why my T-800 skull is taking too long to get here, they seem to be overwhelmed by orders in China,i recieved in the mail today a post card from china with a picture of a cat? Saying my parcel is on the way with a different shipping carrier and should arrive soon so who knows.....https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/27/16374734/terminator-sequel-release-date-2019-james-cameron-tim-miller-movie

Update---Got new tracking info and my parcel is just in customs area in Toronto, won't be much longer now! Can you tell I'm excited!

So I was thinking about what to use for a mobility base as I have never built a really large robot before, I was testing to see what kind of balance and center of gravity I can get by adding a huge chrome shell from a vacuum cleaner I never use (I just broom a lot). So I got it quite high taller than a regular chair. Fooling around on hardwood floors the old Rad robot tank base was a perfect fit as it clamped right on well almost ,I need to shave a bit of plastic off the rad tank sides and I just did a temporary hot glue fix LOL! the old rad body shell can be used for the motors to bend it or turn it side to side at the waist. Outside it works on the driveway but I can tell it will have problems turning on grass if the plan is to make this skeleton to grow with Actuator servos and shock absorbers to be 6 or 7 feet tall. I will for sure need to make the Tank base way bigger and use the high powered all terrain Hover-board motor wheels 8-10 inch size.The only problem is I don't think H-bridge controllers work with those Brushless motor wheels.I need to research it more as it looks like I would need to order 2 separate controllers for both motors from China(I hate ordering from there) I may also just go the easy route and buy the 12 volt kiddy car Gear/motors,so much cheaper and easy to use sabertooth or equivalent H bridge controller.Then there are also the power window motors that are slow but high torque.I tried to insert photo from file but it does not seem to work here.

My tracking number has showed more activity so it is in Transit ,hopefully that means it is in delivery to my house....just get here already, I wanna light up the Terminator red eyes and scare the smiles out of the dog here!

It has arrived! Even more creepy in person. This thing is more heavy than I thought. It is a Chinese copy of the Sideshow T 800 replica. Full Chrome process makes it strong and about 5 pounds. It weighs more than my whole Rad-Robot ! I used the Rad Tank base and the Chrome Vacuum shell to see if it can haul the beast around the room and yes it does but the 6 volt motors will likely burn out so now I am checking Ebay for all the Electric skate board duel motor deals 36 volt ones.... Here it is!....https://youtu.be/O4IBpfQBANo T

I forgot I left the eyes on and went to the store so, when I came back the room was dark, Holy S--- did  that Terminator look spooky shining it's eyes in the dark!! I can already see this will make Eddy from Iron Maiden look like an Oompa Loompa in comparison!...The strategy now will be to find light weight but strong aluminum brackets and tubes to start the skeleton Process as well!

Cylon Kit So now I have a second robot on the way ,got the kit to build the original Cylon Helmet ,not sure if he is sending me the rough chrome kit or the un-finished vinyl kit either way it should be fun to put together and stick an EZ-B in there! Now T-800 has a friend on the way! If you need any other props like a Predator or anything he builds all types of Starwars,Horror anything Sci-Fi these for TV and movies....https://www.facebook.com/Kropserkel/photos/a.389055574322/10156883260729323/?type=3&theater

;)Now if you can just think of problems outside the box there are always simple sollutions. Instead of expensive Actuator Servos I have an idea from being a car guy...The old scissor jack that you can lift a car really high could be used with this method to make Terminator skeleton double it's height. Only need a heavy duty motor to turn a modified scissor jack up or down or whatever design is used in a power window even! A scissor jack could be used if it is made with less resistance to turn, I have 3 of them in my car but a motor would need too much torque right now but could possibly made to work with another window Lift motor.

I am not really liking the old rad body in the middle, I think I will go out to home hardware and see about getting a thick plumbing pipe or an aluminum tube to be strong enough to go from the bottom all the way up to the neck part, The rad body just looks to old and "Plastic" A bit too flimsy for a Terminator,LOL! The PVC pipe I have now is also not strong enough in the center ,it will be okay going to the skull part only. It needs to be made really tough and sturdy. I also want to make the pipe look like the spine from the Terminator movies so I will need to get creative and shape out some hexagon spine connectors to go all the way up and have them looking like chrome after.Many nuts and bolts I will need to buy.More smaller tubes as well to imitate what is in the movie then the chest and back plate I will use some type of light weight plastic and chrome paint them.

EDIT....... On more testing ,the Rad body in the middle really seems to help as a shock absorber when moving forward or backwards, The body has a motor and a spring that controls the waist movement for lean forwards/Lean backwards and this gives the whole robot a nice cushion effect as the head is heavy at 5 pounds and will slightly move backwards if it is taking off suddenly and slightly forward when stopping suddenly, a shock absorbing effect, Possibly good to have. It will be hidden anyway with the front chest plate bars and arm /shoulder linkages. I will likely paint that inner body black but have all the tubes and chest in chrome as well. Trying to replicate what side show does on their whole 1000.00 bust piece.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAj3D6O-yjA

Edit------So I have been just studying all the sideshow models of the T-800/600 life size statues and I can see what I am doing wrong with my Model. It is directly where the bottom of his neck is, that is where the Shock absorber shoulders and arms are supposed to go and on my model the Rad body arms connections are way too Low. I am going to need to raise the body up to the neck bone part and from there buy the 4 small shock absorbers (or just make look a like shocks) The chest plate is easy to make and just add on to the Rad body with self tap screws(Or hot glue LOL!)Similar the back plating. Some of my creative artistic painting skills to get the battle damaged chrome look and I just love it when a plan comes together! I will grab my scissor jack and add that to the bottom inside the vacuum battery can. I found out any old cordless drill can crank the scissor jack up and down. So did I mention I want this T-800 thing to look like a real monster at these out door festivals in summer, Take it out for a night walk and just watch the old people collapse from heart attacks LOL! I am worried about getting the mouth jaw part to move as it talks since, the Chrome process has glued it all shut I have not tried to pry it open yet,a bit too scared to crack any other chrome around it.

Edit---Testing the 2 motors on a bench with my 5 Amp 7.4 Lipo battery went really well! even with half speed the motors are very powerful and not too fast just perfect for a robot . They have internal worm gears which means they will not move not even budge until power is applied and then the torque is so high you can't stop them with your hand. Very quiet too, I am so impressed,exactly what I wanted!

I changed to an 8.4 volt Nimh 3 Amp and the base motors drive good with out weight but probably should add the 7.2  5 Amp Lipo battery for testing tomorrow,more current will help.Can't test right now because somebody is freaking out about all the robot motor noises last night,LOL! Want to try it tomorrow with the Robot on top as the bust weighs 10 pounds ,I don't yet have the proper 12 volt wheel chair battery or the high current H-Bridge so trying it tomorrow with old H bridge rated for only 5 Amps. Motors rated up to 17 Amps so hopefully there will not be a smoke show. Using just cardboard box for battery box Mock up test, This is not final robot body configuration,just a test.

This is coming along so well!

What fun! This is going to be great!

For sure,owning my 2 favorite sci-fi robots is a dream I have had since I was a kid and to finally be able to source the body parts and affordable electronics, bring them to life ,mainly thanks to EZ-B for making it easy to learn simple coding.

Ya weird every pic I try going upside down,strange.

It's coming together pretty great

So Mr T 800 will be going in his comfy home for a while until I can get at my power tools in the RV which has a ton of snow in the way,next month is supposed to be a big warm up and then I can continue his body build.

Mr Cy is going to be

This is the look I'm going for with Cy but instead of walking he will have the 3 wheel base drive and I have a bunch of robot arms in my RV that I need to get for both bots and attach them later.

So as I wait for the Live hack event, thought I would work on my robot wheel base. Found a perfect fit from a tool storage container, clear plastic. Now I can see all the cool lights shine through from the EZ controller and electronics at the bottom! So you see you do not need to spend great deal of money to build your robot body! I will use self tapping screws to put the main sections together so I can drive  both robot versions around,still just a mock up prototype until I get all the balance adjustments good. Robot

The other guy with same wheel ride....

I think I will just buy the whole Cylon body kit to save time instead of creating from scratch!....

Flash light Hack!  I changed the L.E.D. eyes with the L.E.D.'s from a dollar store Flashlight, what a difference the eyes are super bright now and this thing just gives me the creeps now at almost 5 feet tall!

I am still thinking that my original idea to have the Terminator sitting in a creepy old fashion Wheel chair was the best idea, I think I will try to source one off Ebay and then add my own motors and electronics, add robot arms to terminator that move making it look like he is controlling the joystick on the arm rest.That would be so insanely Frightening to the Max!

Does anyone else second guess their project? Sometimes I am happy with the robot building progress then I start to think, Should I just tear it down and start over? Then I will just have a coffee and brainstorming on what else I can do to make it better,LOL! I am pretty happy with the Base wheel carrier and the Terminator is getting there,until I start adding all the chrome pipes for the rest of the skeleton with arms I won't know how good it will turn out. I really want it to look spooky and mean so once I move it to where all my power tools are next month hopefully the progress will be almost done.

Second guess? You bet! However I like to call it Research and Development or Prototyping. LOL.

You are not alone in second guessing your projects, I do that all the time to mine.  I start to see different ways to do something or overthink it.  I usually have more fun and learn more if I just keep pushing ahead when I don't change too much from my original idea.

xDHey guys, glad to see I'm not the only one! You are right though when a plan does come together nicely it really is fun. I am just limited by my tools or lack of tools I should say. Next month when I move back to my Motor home  I will be so happy to see all my power tools again, I missed them so much this winter! There is only so much you can do with a screwdriver and a hot glue gun LOL!

Oh well I had a dream last night! Unlike Martin  Luther King's dream ,mine was the vision of Terminator as lawn mower ride on conversion, Gardening with a weed whacker/Leaf blower, in the house vacuuming and polishing floors with attachments and in the winter a possible snow blower conversion....oh yeahhhhh! Possibilities of doing something practical with this guy is endless. I have a huge lawn to cut this summer and weeds to whack so going to start planning that out!

So it is amazing to see all the robot action going on lately in this Forum! We are really living now in an amazing time period! Thanks to DJ and his vision to get this EZ controller out for the masses we can do things we only dreamed about as kids. Also credits to all in the EZ company for all the hard work they do!  I guess I am the only idiot that is building 2 robots at the same time LOL! So excited at what I can do and really did dream about as a kid, My Cylon project is also coming together nicely and he is asking but where is my body sir? It is coming and it will be cool! I am building his neck servo tonight to play with EZ camera and come alive..Just like CY from the Galactica 1980 episode "The Return of Starbuck" where Starbuck crashes on the lonely planet and rebuilds the enemy cylon robot to be his companion, I am there...Sci-Fi meets real time reality!

Well so far so good with the motor testing but this is just with a light weight Nimh 8.4 volt battery and the motors are 12 volt 15 Amp so I need to see how it will work with the added weight of a wheel chair type SLA battery or 2 smaller SLA 12 volt batteries used in lawn mowers and rec vehicles. if the weight is too much I will consider a more expensive Li on Battery of equal volts/Amps. Also could get several Lipo's in parallel each at 10 Amp/Hr. Now I need to connect 2 Sonars ,EZ camera and hook the eye lights to the EZ controller...and let it rip around!

stunning how did you get the chrome on the cylon mask?

Scott down at Kropserkle sold me the un-finished kit but I was surprised when I saw he sent me the Chromed version for the same price and all I had to do was glue the 2 halves together and then glue in the mouth piece,I already had the scanner L.e.D. from Ebay so it was a great deal!

thats alot of work to make the helmet.here is the video how he makes the helmet.making cylon 's helmet

yes he saved me time by doing most of the rough cutting before sending it to me as I did say I will buy the other Armour pieces from him chromed to add for robot body, going for a look similar to the new CGI model.

Also my Terminator body is still on hold until I get to my Motor home that has all my robot arms and other parts needed as I am trying to get the same look as the Sideshow replica they sell for about $800.00 on Ebay and that is just a model with no arms no servos!

This is me talking into my Cylon voice changer on the Iphone app,has different EQ settings to make it sound like original robots,you just need the Microphone/speaker combo for the input to make it "Live" not recorded but can also make recordings too.Can even be used inside helmet and worn by human as costume voice changer but I am just going to use the ARC Speech default voice synthesizer for input to robot.At the end that was my tribute to the Boney M song,Sounded really close too!

yep that sounds like a real cylon.

Not bad for a free iphone App, can even use next halloween if I wear full costume,LOL!

that i would love to see,haha .what is the name off the iphone app?

it is Voice Express by Q Neo free cylon and many other voices in the paid version.

got it many thanks,its starts ainstant with the cylon voice.

the app also works in dutsh language and reacts to music too.

Well these new 12 volt Cytron motors are not only high torque but also extremely fast,too fast had to modify the EZ script to search out the room with sonars and drive at 50% of the speed as it was going fast as a cat at full speed! Few more things to do before I put on the Terminator body,I have a much larger 12 volt motorcyle battery that will fit inside the chrome cylinder that Terminator rides on top of.Need to drill the holes for wiring.

It has rained like crazy for last 3 days just hoping to get it out for test tomorrow.

Weird that my new posts are showing up with wrong date and not added at the last posting just saying edited Jan 1?

Well, I broke down and bought the Google home Mini as it is still on sale so cheap at WalMarts, I am pleasantly surprised how loud this little Hockey puck size smart speaker sounds! I am just going to use it as my Cylon robot Brain,it is so small it fits great and the microphones are so sensitive you can just ask Google from across the room or in my case right now across the lawn  at my cottage outside! and the first thing I asked was "hey google play me a rock music list" And the damned thing some how knew my favorite death metal band and my favorite song as it pulled a music channel from youtube and started to play,damned impressive! Can't wait to see what else it does as I bought the chromecast plug to go to my TV and play all the youtube vids and netflix or any movies.Also got the smart electrical plug to control any electrical devices and these things are cheap,like 12 bucks,gonna get more later. My Cylon helmet was in an earlier post on this thread if you look back a bit to see picture. Terminator project is still going great roaming around my yard,still using EZ-B of course!:D

Right on! I love the Cylon head, is it a helmet?

Oh Hi Jer, Yes it is an official Kropserkel Helmet you can buy online complete with eye or cheaper as a kit where all you need to do is glue the 2 halves together,the mouth piece and add the Jupiter electronics L.E.D. red eye from Ebay or Amazon. The owner of Kropserkel Scott lives in my old home town so he gave me the Helmet kit with the 2 halves already Chrome plated. He is a great guy to deal with! I am hoping to get the rest of the Cylon body parts to complete as a real robot rather than the costume it is meant to be sold as.His Cylon costume parts are all Chrome plated and in high demand all over the world so it is a bit of a wait when you order from Kropserkel. His full size Cylon classic statue was featured in the 2004 Battlestar TV show re-make when they show the Battle Museum of it in a glass case aboard the Galactica near the start of the first show.

Keep the videos coming mike - super cool!

Well I lost some time as my hard drive crashed big time due to the Power supply exploding in my desktop computer,it must have also caused a major short in the Drive and it became impossible to fix,tried every trick I know but it is beyond repair,the data can still be seen on my Ubuntu laptop oddly enough so I may be able to copy over my music and files before throwing it in the garbage. Back to building up the Terminator and programming what I want it to do with the EZ controller. Although I have it Linked up to my Google mini using the USB 12 volt adapter, The synthesized voice actually sounds best coming from EZ-B and then into Google mini speaker for loudness. To be continued...

Edit---- Now with the EZ Camera I am thinking how cool it would be to get a red soccer ball so Terminator can see it easy and knock it around the soccer field, in between the goal posts!

I have added the M4 Machine rifle to the Terminator, it is fully electronic and can be switched on with EZ-B controller,with out airsoft BB's it makes avery impressive sound in Full Auto mode just like in the Terminator movies and of course with the 300 BB's loaded into the magazine it will fire them hard enough to go through card board(Even my sheet rock roof!) It would hurt to get hit like a minor bruise but will be only used for hitting targets in the field outside with Aim from my TV or smart aim by the Terminator. Hard to see full detail of weapon but wait 'Til I get it out in the sun shine!

I added some brush on black paint to the eye sockets and Brain CPU cavities,also in the deeper holes around the Jaw areas,looks more like the real Movie Terminator now,just need to add a new LED to the right eye and pop it back on...Raining again here like usual so can't get much testing done. ...oops forgot to publish vid,try again,hold on.....

Template for painting Chest and just leave the shiny chrome parts under as part of the spinal column to make it look more like in the movies. Still raining here so it is a bit dark but you can still see The shiny bony parts on the chest.

As for the second Cylon robot project , I will be converting this Rad 2.0 robot I got from Ebay to use the body parts and lighting,possibly the original 6 volt motor gear track system as well. Along with my Spare EZ-B version 3 and H bridge controller. Of course it will be way taller too. The fist step is to paint it Glossy black and then the special chrome paint ordered from Ebay.

Just had had a great Field test here night time at the cottage out in the Dark Field with only a Flashlight on the Robot to light his way around. I only used the Mobile bottom section for now since it is hard to see any bumps in the grass and would not be able to see if Terminator upper body may topple over.The bottom half wheels were quite fast booting around the Field!

Congrats @Robo Rad! It seems it's been a successful night for the both of us. I was able to get the power glove controlling the Adventurebot on tonight's Live Hack

I know it's no easy feat to get your robot driving around outdoors on an uneven surface, so that's awesome!

Nice. I'm hoping to see an action video of this big guy soon. Do you intrend on sending on one of your ghost hunts?

Today will be a great day for testing all the Walking Gaits I want to program with ARC,I also just changed the eyes to the correct color and brightness of the movie Terminators using automotive dash L.E.D.'s 12 volt, super terrifying now. The Terminator has already scared a few old people here and it is not yet even 6 foot tall,that comes later with the lifting cylinder I am buying, he will lift upper body when ever not moving to search for stuff or observe cams but Lower when booting across the field. Some of you may remember how the larger Robosapien V2 had different walking styles,that is what I need to start on today,it helps with balance.Ghost hunts would be Fun with T-800 but I bet the ghosts would even be to scared to come near it, LOL!

This was going to be the first outdoors test with the Large wheelchair battery installed as it was running slower but with a small Lipo battery Okay but just slower, with the extra power , it seems to want to tilt to far left or right on the 360 turns,too much power now! So I will add some side support wheels to avoid this problem.

Ya, that doesn't surprise me. He's pretty tall and heavy for such a narrow base. You have a great idea there with side support wheels. Do you plan to have them powered and part of the drivetrain or just freewheeling and suspended just above the ground to "catch" him when he starts to tip?

Hey Dave I am looking to copy the DJ Snow robot design for better traction. Bigger ATV wheels and 2 larger castor wheels at back with wider axel.We had so much rain yesterday this bot design will only work on hard floors but not the mud. Stock

The 8 channel Relay board is on it's way so that I can control the old style DC motors in the Arms and wrists using along with the EZB to send the commands. This will be yet another learning experience getting the modern digital EZ to the old school relay board and figuring out the timing for each elbow to wrist movements. The Fingers gripping will likely need the HDD servo to work though. I will eventually replace the older DC motors to all HDD servos in the future. As this can all be controlled with just the EZ-B.

So I have gone back to the drawing board on outdoors mobility for the Terminator, Found an old Kiddy car that has the perfect sized wheels with rubber treads and the both corners at back have the larger wheels that spin 360 like castor wheels but are actual tire types. Will need to cut car body in half first to make it shorter and then add my window lift motors to the front,this should work on all terrain outside!

The 8 channel relay board came in so I am figuring out getting one relay working with ARC program to control Arm motor duration/speed.I am using the Older EZB-V3 as the 5 volt regulator for the Relay board and the EZB-V4 to get the signal also ARC program to adjust timing for relay#5 to open and close switch,next will be to control an Arm movement.

It's kinda cool seeing an old EZB-V3 burning away. At first when I saw it in the vidro I wondered why you were using outdated and unsupported hardware. Then I read your post where you're just using it as a regular. Very cleaver and a good use of devices on hand.

I heard the relay board clicking away. Looks like it's working!

Yes thanks Dave, it is working and is just a mess of wires for testing out the new stuff. I just love electronics and trying out new or old style circuit boards! Most people have no clue what I am doing until they see me organize the wires and boards neatly on the robots. Hey , I was just actually reading your B9 thread, some amazing stuff you are doing there! The old EZB-3 was going to be just like a classic museum piece on my shelf to just look at but I think it deserves to serve it's intended purpose to live on a robot. It will display itself on the robot's back pack. L.E.D.'s showing through clear plastic cover.Of course EZ-4 will still be the main controller.

I think I need a break, Took me many hours today to just figure out how to reverse motor polarity using old style relay board with 1 battery to raise the Terminator Left arm up and back down,  programmed with ARC Blockly. Next will be the wrist motor and finger grippers. When I get to building my other Cylon project I think I will stick with the HDD servos, wayyyyyy more easy than Relay board ,older motors for arms.I think I accidentally made a crude relay wired H-bridge to get the motors working without shorting battery.

Chopped a kiddy car in half to try wheels outside in Field. 12 volt high torque motors and wheelchair battery. Also adds the height I wanted.

At just about 6 foot tall I think he is about ready to cause Mayhem in the outside park! Still need to add the chrome paint tomorrow on the wheel base and the electronic turret machine gun just BB's of course and only for the cool sound effect.

Nice progress. I love the look now that you added the with to his lower section. I'm sure that will help with the top heavy tilting when he turns.

I may have missed it but are you using RC control for the drive wheels? If so what type of controller are you using? I'm going to be mobilizing a full size B9 robot and am looking for good RC options to control his movement. I'd like to keep the cost below 150 USD if possible.

No RC controls ,just going to keep it under ARC Mobile app control or full autonomous Roaming with all the new sensors helping out,EZ camera and possibly some tilt sensors to help the bot roam in the bumpy field areas. I am using 2 high power motor controllers at the wheels connected to EZB-4.These work great with my 15 Amp motors as they are now updated to handle 13 Amps continuously with 30 Amp peak power and all the way up to 30 volt motors.Very good price on these too...... https://www.robotshop.com/en/cytron-13a-5-30v-single-dc-motor-controller.html

Thanks!

Sounds like quite a cool robot you have here. When in roaming mode do you have some kind of "return to home area" if it go beyond a boundary? This scary cat would cause quite a commotion rolling down main street in town. LOL

That is a great question Dave and something I need to think about . I have lost control of my older robots before when roaming around outside All I could do was run after them when they would keep running across the field. If EZB controller disconnects for any reason there is no cutting off at the motors ,they just keep going with no way to remotely shut off. I will need some type of safety cut off circuit  like a drone uses to return to home.

What brand paint did you use this time?  I have heard painting with a base of black first then chrome or gold or any of the metallic is the secrete to really make the paint pop.  Yours looks good!

OMG...what a beast!! Hopefully we can see it in action soon!!

Hey Justin, My local hardware store just got in some cans of Krylon Chrome Premium and yes if a base coat of Glossy black is used first then this paint will look really close to chrome, there is more expensive Chrome paint that does look even better from Ebay called Spazstix Chrome but I have not yet tried that brand but thinking about ordering in the future.

So I bought 4 HDD EZ Robot servos from Robotshop Canada ,as they get shipped to me so fast and no long waiting from China. These will be used to replace the older motors controlling the Terminator arms. I like the fact that the HDD were designed for EZ-B controllers and have metal gears,great reviews too! I may also update the hand/finger grippers since the goal will be to have Terminator pick up full bottle or can of beer and deliver to guests around the camp fire,actually hand them a beer. I need to see what are the torque requirements to get this job done and try to source the parts.

Oh my God, after installing Terminator body on top of wheel base, The sight of this thing is absolutely terrifying! It looks like one of the Army base early Terminator security robots shown in Terminator 3!

Just put together with electric motor base about as tall as my car but I will still make it much taller. I also need to add a stabilizer bar to the Front motors since the body can flex right now throwing out the forward movement. Tomorrow I can put all the electronics back inside and mount all the lights and sensors...Wwell I feel incredibly sad, we just had to kill a large Porkupine that was constantly coming around threatening us with it's sharp Quills.It took many hits from a large axe but it had to be done...R.I.P. little warrior.

Man...you are building a Terminator Robot in the woods and just killed a wild pig with your axe? Who are you Mad Max???

Ha ha ya but if it was actually a wild pig I would have a pig roast BBQ , I spelled it wrong as in Porcupine. I checked on the internet that they are a species of Rodent that some how made it to Canada from places like Africa and they are beastly huge rodents with about 4 inch needle spikes covering them. When threatened they make the Needles stick out like a blow fish and can charge it's enemy jabbing hundreds of these needles into the face of it's enemy.I was almost attacked last week early in the morning when I heard the crazy growling sounds it makes,By the time I saw it with my Flashlight it was just a few feet away and had it's spikes ready to attack me. Of course I ran back as they are really spooky looking the first time you see one. Think of a Gigantic Rat with long needles puffed out all over it!

Thinking of you out there in the middle of the night with a flashlight, searching for a beast makes it even more believable that you are the true Mad Max!!!

LOL! Ya the MadMax Road Warrior was always a favorite movie!...latest update...I decided to just tweek the default "Pink" English USA TTS voice in the Google home App and I get an excellent Terminator voice to use with the Small but loud Google mini Bluetooth speaker and a simple TSS/RSS news feed reader from the Google play store. He will just blabber all day long automatically every time the news feed updates.....The only thing I could not add is the slight Arnold German accent, the older TTS voice engines from Microsoft could do that and still read English with a German accent if you added the German language pack. The new TTS engines don't allow this, It will just convert the text to German and not read any English so I guess it will need to be English Arnold Terminator only. I still think it sounds way cool!

Is this metallic robot voice a TTS voice? Sounds supercool!!! Maybe you could just add mp3 files of your favorite Terminator quotes and have the robot pull one of those every now and then?

Oh for sure some famous mp3 lines to quote from films. It is still good to have the tts voice to say what ever from the ARC as it can use my modified google voice too when running scripts on the mobile cell app.

Ok ,so my 4 EZ Robot HDD servos just arrived. Very impressed how much weight they have for a small servo. These must really have metal parts inside. Now I am planning to replace the old Robosapien V2 arm and wrist motors that are about the same size and only use cheaper plastic gears. They were tricky to get the timing consistent using a relay board. These new HDD servos can be programmed directly from the EZ-B and the movements can be saved in a bunch of ways that simplify the whole process of arm/wrist gripper movements. The arms I use are just really light plastic parts so I believe it will work great. I feel like a kid in a candy store,LOL!

Terminator running good with just a 8.4 battery for now until I charge up the wheelchair 12 volt battery,that will give increased speed and torque for the two 12 volt motors. Gets stuck in deep sand due to the Terminator weight but I will change the wheels to all terrain type wheels to solve problem of sticking in sand or mud,,on grass he runs like a champ though.

Admit it...you dug that hole on purpose, so he cannot escape and take over the world!!

Ah ha ha! I should have known that spot is Quick sand because that is where it turns into a pond every time it rains,very soft sand there. Well now the real work begins installing all the new servos and sensors. I need to add a 4X4 wood axel there at the front motors since the puny aluminum bars don't do much to keep the wheels straight but it did work fairly good this time. I am very happy with the rear swivel wheels and so far all the testing he has not fallen over,I am thinking about adding a Dalek skirt around the mobile base with bump sensors all around it. Would kind of resemble "Davros" King of the Daleks,I don't know we will see,my brain is always over-thinking stuff,LOL!

Well well well, Jeremie , I am so far really impressed with these HDD servos you engineered! If any of you ever had the Robosapien V2 with the huge clunky arms and saw how many plastic gears were needed for the tiny motor to lift them up. I can now confirm that a single shoulder HDD servo has the power and torque to do the job to lift entire V2 arm ! Very impressed,will buy more!

Thanks for the props @Robo Rad

Yeah I really like the HDD servos too. The manufacturer took quite some time to meet all our requirements but once they finally did we were very happy.

Oh yeahhhh, working hard to get Terminator ready for some summer fun. I was watching the Terminator movies to replicate the walking movements related to the arm movements when carrying weapons,shooting etc,I am programming the arm servos to mimic their style. (In Exoskeleton battle scenes). I have my A.E.G. BB auto firing Rifle shortened to fit Terminator Hip side. The Ez cam will point to targets and gun will be aimed at center of video hopefully hitting the targets I set up in the yard. Eventually the Terminator will learn to hit certain targets by itself. I have a red dot target sight but thinking about adding a green Laser to make accurate shooting.

Now you made the mistake of arming him!!!! Skyyyyyynet!!!

I have added the Sharp IR Sensor to help out with collision avoidance and used the EZB-v3 since it has the excellent 5 volt regulator and can take many 5 volt sensors there! The Latte panda should be here tomorrow as well.The EZb-4 will still have many great scripts running with the EZ cam attached to the Gun sight, Will add that eerie Terminator red view with distorted flanger sound and the target aquired visuals that I can watch on my big tv to see what he shoots at.Also still using my cool Google voice as I am using my old cell phone hooked up to the mini Amp speaker, but I can still use the EZB speak on the fly if some intruder gets in the way

Well that Latte Panda just came in with the 7"display that fits perfectly just over the EZB-3 ,the acrylic case comes in a million pieces that I need to put together so that I can mount it on the robot and protect it from the elements and I also bought the tiny cpu fan that will just fit with the case. It is the 4Gig ram version so it should be spunky!  The only problem is I  bought this tiny 9 gram servo that was to be used for a sharp IR radar sweeper but the servo is analog and no matter what EZB pins I try it just mover violently to the right with any ARC control I try?? I am new to using servos and the EZ HDD servos work great but this brand ,not sure what to do. This is the servo here....https://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/9g-micro-servo-motor-4-8v.html

added-----Also the tiny servo power wires ( +5v and Ground) go to the EZB-3 for 5 volts from the regulator and the signal wire I tried adding to any analog or even digital pin on the EZB-4 but no good so far.

ARC will control analog servos just fine. I use analog servos exclusively in my B9 robot.

Do you have the two EZB's neutrals (grounds) tied together? If not try that.

Also make sure you set the max and min range for the servo in the servo control or in an INT script at ARC startup. Make sure the servo start position is inside that range. Setting the range and start position in an INT is the best way. Here's the section from my INT script that sets these for me:

# #Specify the ranges for the servos
# #this prevents the servos from ever going past these limits

# Rt side_to_side Wrist
SetServoMin(2.D0, 120)
SetServoMax(2.D0, 165)

# Rt Up_Dn Wrist Servo
SetServoMin(2.D1, 20)
SetServoMax(2.D1, 170)

# Right Claw
SetServoMin(2.D3, 77)
SetServoMax(2.D3, 99)

# Left Up_Dn Wrist Servo
SetServoMin(2.D4, 14)
SetServoMax(2.D4, 180)

# Left side_to_side Wrist
SetServoMin(2.D5, 82)
SetServoMax(2.D5, 138)

# Left Claw
SetServoMin(2.D6, 68)
SetServoMax(2.D6, 90)

# Bubble Blocks
SetServoMin(D15, 85)
SetServoMax(D15, 177)

# Bubble Servo
SetServoMin(D1, 45)
SetServoMax(D1, 97)

# -------------------------------------------------------
Sleep(50)

# # Srart and Set servo Speeds & Position
Servo(D1, 80) #Move Bubble Lifter servo to rest postion
Sleep(100)
ServoSpeed(D1,20) # Bubble Lifter Servo
Sleep(100)
Set(D10, On) #Bubble 0n servo Power after move command to keep from jumping.
Sleep(100)

Oh right I forgot about the Ground wires should be common on the 2 EZB's,will try that! I have been concentrating on trying to get the 7" touch display working on the robot chest with the Latte Panda. So far only the HDMI going to my monitor works fine but the 7" touch screen just lights up dark grey with no text or picture. Suspecting it is a defective touch display may need to send it back for another one. Meanwhile I can still use the Panda win10 to actually get EZB -3 working since it has Bluetooth on it which none of my older computers had. Then I can still have the EZB-4 with more servos attached and the built in Arduino on the Panda can add even more fun sensors and gadgets. One final note or warning...if you buy the Latte Panda with clear Acrylic case, if you have large man fingers you will experience hours of frustration putting all the tiny pieces together! Took me 2 days not the 1 hour it says online,LOL!

Well that is awesome, I finally got the 7" latte panda display working so now I can figure out the mounting on the robot. I also need to find a good way to power up the panda using my main 12 volt motorcycle battery. so I am thinking to also use the EZB v3 as the 5 volt regulator and use the special power pins on the panda, hopefully EZB-3 has enough current amps for the job as it is very picky about which USB charger would work (some phone chargers too week) I ended up using the USB power adapter for my google mini speaker but not sure what the Amp specs are on that,need to research all this and compare with the EZ3 regulator specs to see if they match.

Good to see you managed powering all your peripherals ...I always get very nervous when doing this, you'll burn a lot of money if this goes wrong!!

I can clearly see how relieved you where when that Latte Panda powered up!!

I had an interesting night last night trying to see how I can keep the on board Latte Panda computer running on the robot using just battery power. The requirements of the USB power on the panda are 5 volts 2-4 Amps. However, the Latte web site says that if you make a barrel jack power adapter that go to the Panda power pins(next to the fan power) It can handle much more current than the USB connector. So I tried using the power pins connected to the EZB3  5 volt regulated pins and with all the battery types I tried I was surprised to see that a lead acid 12 volt 4.5 Amp battery could not power up the Panda, An 8.4 Nimh 3000 Ma battery powered it up for a few minutes but my 7.4 5000 Ma Lipo (that I use with EZB4) could run the panda up to half hour. I think I also tried my bigger 12 volt motorcycle battery 18 Amps going into the EZB3 volt regulator and into the Panda but only powered the Panda for a few minutes? So I am actually looking at either buying a 10000 Ma 7.4 Lipo battery or one of those new Lithium power packs that have 20,000 Ma and cost about the same as a 10,000 Lipo battery......I am thinking a Lithium power pack would last way longer...Decisions,decisions. I also believe eliminating The EZ3 as a regulator would benefit the Panda.I don't know what the rated Amp 5 volt output was on that EZ3. All these tests were with everything on including EZB4 running a sonar sweep for the robot.

So when I tested my 7.4 Lipo battery yesterday, it was not at full charge, I am trying again right now and I started up both EZB's the Panda computer and running a sonar sweep ,started 9:00pm and it is now almost 10:00 pm so a good hour now! The wheels will be using the motorcycle battery separately which can last a day or 2. So always fully charge your Lipo with a good balancer charger Gang!:D

Here he demonstrates his sonar vision to avoid objects outside and with BB gun attached with cam to aim it.I wanted to use the 7 inch latte panda display to show the Terminator targeting all in red on his chest but the display is defective and the tech support at DF robot seems useless,may have wasted 50 bucks on that display if I can't get a replacement.

Wow so Robot shop Canada comes through again with super fast delivery like I ordered Friday and here this morning, I love those guys!The 7" display I originally got from DF robot china was a dud and can get another one for exchange but the ridiculous shipping costs not worth it (50.00) last time for duty tax? So Lucky that Robot shop sells the other 7" display HDMI and touch version that connects to Latte Panda or any small computer. Using it now and the Quality of this one is so much better! Using it now.It even came with free mounting screws for attach Panda to the back and an extra HDMI-HDMI adapter for 2 displays! I will use this as the mobile touch computer for all my robots and to go on my haunted adventures using the Kinect camera hooked to Panda and new display...Thank you RobotShop.ca! My only complaint with them was when I ordered 4 EZ robot HDD servos they all came with no mounting discs or plastic attachments so it made my life hell trying to fabricate them on the Terminator arms.Not sure who responsible for shipping servos with no attachments,possibly EZ Robot ships like that?

i would send them a mail and asking for it.the horns . 1 bag off horns per servo.

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So Lucky that Robot shop sells the other 7" display HDMI and touch version that connects to Latte Panda or any small computer.

This was the one I got from robotshop Canada....https://www.robotshop.com/ca/en/7-1024x600-hdmi-display-capacitive-touchscreen.html

And this display seems to have better resolution than the regular display from china most likely because it is true HDMI as now all of my EZ robot projects fit properly on the display for saving programs where before this would be missing at the bottom of screen the save button.

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This was the one I got from robotshop Canada.

Alan

Actually running ARC right now and it works great, I can totally do everything I could on the big monitor. ----Oh wait ok, so everything does look sharp and clear,my ARC projects all fit great on the screen but only thing is at this resolution the save button gets cut off at the bottom but only when saving project to synthiam cloud. Saving file on computer works great though, So this is a very tiny problem that I'm sure could be resolved possibly just need to reduce the custom font size or icon size down by 25%. I will figure it out. The touch is very responsive and just like having an expensive windows tablet but with real windows using  latte Panda.

Seems better with the larger drive wheels but I think I need more speed for the turning and over all forward speed so this I can adjust with the ARC win10 program running it.

Sorry but had just HAD TO DO THIS!!!!

Aha ha! Believe me it has fallen over and crushed it self about 10 times already! It just keeps getting stronger and faster. I don't think anyone has ever field tested the EZBv4 as much as i have through several bots outside and in rain, mud ,snow impact crashes...that EZb4 is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Nothing can kill it if wire connections are good I have used the same one for years now! Congrats. To EZ robot and DJ for such an awesome robot controller!

Yeeeeeeeesssss, send those troopers thru the mud!! EZ-Robot and Synthyam are great!! Also this forum is so much fun!!! Good to have all these great robot enthusiasts under one roof!!

This is the greatest community forum on Earth! The real skynet! LoL!

CHINA police robot deployed to streets .....https://futurism.com/first-police-robots-traffic-china Ha hahahahahahahah..ha ha ha...OMG that is the best China can do with all their tech and Factory work forces?? My Terminator is just made of scrap plastic I had lying around and most of the electronic boards come from China.Yet My Terminator on the street would send criminals running for their life compared to that joke China robo-cop, LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Well, they are "cute" aren't they?  Most of the police or security robots are like that one in their design appearance and function.  Designed to look like a kiosk on wheels in my opinion.  Their value proposition is they add a presence and they gather information and their TCO or Total Cost of Ownership is less than a manned guard.

The presence part is important because studies show people behave differently if they think someone is watching them.  Cameras don't change people's behavior very much.  A human guard or officer will change behavior and initial studies show people will respond the same to a robot as they do a human. TCO is important because any organization making money wants to make more. The information collection, that is probably the dark horse with these devices, because they can collect more data than just evidence recording.  They can record foot traffic.  Traffic patterns through out the day.  Customer flow patterns.  I'm sure they could collect all sorts of neat information to the cloud and could then be used for things other than security.

So it makes sense they design the robots to look like a kiosk on wheels, so no one gives them a second thought.....until its too late!   Not everyone can be as cool as RoboRad and jump start the robot revolution right now!!

Oh ya for sure police in China have more sinister secret motives to gather data on the population. if they all looked like terminators ,the population would not trust them.Still I would laugh if I saw one like a walking pylon tailing me down the side walk!

Oh yeahhhh! Actually just chilling out with the A.C. and a beer in the R.V. here at the cottage. Programming a bunch of scripts for the terminator to seek out red balloons outside and terminate them with his electronic pellet rifle. I will be using an 8 channel relay I bought to activate pellet rifle getting signal from the Latte Panda running the EZB's. should be a blast! Had fun downloading about 40 Arnold Terminator movie MP3 Quotes that it can random;y spout out while shooting at balloons (EZ camera set to search and move robot to balloons) Just got to get arms and rifle back on and mount 7" display to his back for better room.His voice TTS speech can only use default microsoft voice with Latte Panda windows 10, which sounds lame but when I use Mobile cell phone on the mobile ARC I automatically get the cool Google robot voice TTS instead, sounds more Terminator evil!

OMG AI Killer Robots a real!!!

omg i need to hide all my robots,terminator is comming.lolcool

Not to worry Nomad I keep it on a leash so it does not escape in the night!

So I am very impressed with the EZ camera performance to do basic color tracking ,it is bang on accurate for red color even in low light indoor condition! Now the Camera is mounted on the robot but I should put it on the BB Auto Rifle so Terminator can actually hit targets the gun is pointing at. This was the successful test I did in the R.V. I am using both a humpty dumpty chip bag in the background as a red target or my Mouse with red light for tracking test. The new 8 channel relay gets signal from EZB and activates gun when ever red target is tracked it scared me the first time even if the 300 BB's are not yet loaded in the clip magazine! The air is still loud from the gun! Next step is to buy some red balloons for outside and program the script for robot movement tracking/camera.

I have a theoretical question, because I'm thinking about building a terminator myself...Can a terminator speak if it is no longer covered in skin?

I mean, sure we can make anything speak with a speaker as robot builders, but what I'm asking is do Terminators speaks once their flesh is removed and they have no tongue?  They still have a jaw and teeth.  But do they need it to make sounds?  Do they have speakers in their throats?  Do we have t-800 specs on this from James Cameron?  LOL  I don't recall a scene where metal terminators spoke.  But the t-1000s could speak and they were all liquid, how did that work?

I'm trying to figure out if I need to make my Terminators mouth move or not.  Are you going to make yours move RoboRad?  Or is yours going to speak via video clips only (which if that is your plan is genius!)?

Ha ha ya you are right! I can't ever remember a Terminator Exoskeleton talking ever! Well mine sure does I was able to fill his soundboard with the full 100 MP3 1 liners and TTS speech from Google voice. I do plan on making the video record shooting at targets with red overlay and audio flanger distortion,like in the Films.People should not come around my Lawn wearing red shorts while I test this guys shooting ability. So far the EZ cam is amazing at how far it can see red targets and then blast it with gun. So far I have not loaded up the 300 BB rounds as it is still in testing phase and it can fire at 900 Rounds per minute . I have it set for 1 second bursts as it takes a while to load so many BB's.That is what I do next.It can now seek out targets and then go to a new script where it does the shooting routine,after,jump back to camera seeking and robot search script until it finds red lawn targets and repeats into firing sequence.

I saw this interesting russian bot ,reminds me of the classic cylons. Not sure if they are built only for zero gravity space?

That would be my guess that they decided to make it for zero gravity after walking on Earth was tricky.  And with Russian designs, there are no fail safes.  I would not want to be up there with that thing.  This should end badly.

It very well could end badly,not really sure how good the Russian robot tech has advanced but at least they did give it a cool body design. Likely for show and propaganda.

Well hey...all the years I have used ARC, I have never tried the RoboScratch in it. I have used Blockly many times and just wrote my own regular scripts the hard way but using the cheat controls to be quicker at it. RoboScratch is really nice the way you can make it like a traditional programming flow chart. Love the feature of adding a custom RoboScratch script module as part of the Flow! This will make programming the robot much more easy.

This time I filled the mag with the 300 BB's they glow in the dark as tracer fire but it is still dylight,hard to see them but you can heer them hit the trees way in the back as it misses the red target. Cam Needs to be adjusted for outside lighting as it thought I was the red target ,too much gain and color set too high ,it see's red everywhere ,LOL! Also back sonar not on yet so I need to watch where it backs into.

It looks like someone in Russia is building a Terminator as well....and theirs can also talk with no skin.     I like yours much better though RoboRad!!  I really had a good laugh at your last testing...when you became the target!!!  Whoops!!!!  The machine really did turn on you!!!!  hahaha

Ohhh Snap!!  Kalashnikov Will Make an A.I.-Powered Killer Robot  The best part is, they say it will "learn" from it's mistakes.    We all saw how it went with your terminator and that was with a BB gun, LOL!!  That thing is going to end up being a real life ED-209.

Wow really? Ya I was actually lucky because I saw how hard the BB's were hitting the trees way in the back, The Terminator gun shoots bursts of about 10 that could have ruptured my eyes,LOL! Near miss there!

So I got a new V4 comm board because a spark had caused the board to stop connecting to my network .Now why are the 2 magnets at the bottom of EZB just loose there? Could they short out the bottom board as well? I removed them because 1 of the magnets was rattling around in there and it looks so close to the printed circuit board. Now the connection problem seems good.Before with the bad comm board it would still connect in Ad hoc mode but not client mode . Then the scripts would randomly disconnect the EZB connection at different times. Now with the new board scripts can run until the battery dies, big improvement  in both Ad hoc and Client WiFi modes.

Before some one says, "those are EZ-Robot products" and to ask them for support, etc...I believe the magnets you speak of are on newer ezbv4/2 units and help them stay inside base units they clip in like JD, etc with magnets.  They are there for reason.  But before someone else says it, if you feel like it's a warrant issue you'd want to contact EZ-Robot from their site.

This is the Terminator project getting converted to Cylon classic robot but upgraded CGI version in real life.Will for sure be taller as it has a large helmet,shoulder length greater and arms extended.The head is still not glued all the way as I need to add the eye visor and mouth grill.The Chest piece and back pack also need to be fabricated.

That looks pretty cool.  Did the hands/claws get painted black?  Or is that just a camera trick?

Nice to see that you are constantly modding you robot!!

Thats the fun part if it right?

Oh yes Justin, I did paint the hands with Gloss black model paint to give it a more ominous effect. I sure do love modifications on the robot, sometimes I am working on 2 other bots at the same time, there is just so many fun things the EZ B system can let you do with out being a computer programmer just a normal guy....Ha ha ,sounds like a commercial.

Ha ha ! Terminator is laughing at Cylon because Cy looks like a wimp without his Chrome Battle armor! LOL! Ya i got his head attached to the Terminator Xoskeleton but still trying to order his Chest and Back pack Body Chromed Armor plates. This is the busy time right before Halloween because too many people are ordering the same Cylon body kits as Halloween costumes...GRRRR!

After trying out this new chrome polishing cloth called "Power polish" Both of the robot heads shine like new again, I an having a hard time deciding which robot head should stay on the robot body. Halloween is coming and it would be cool to have the terminator answer the door and hand out candy but then again the new cylon chromed battle armor is on the way with chest and back pack pieces That will also be an indoor robot so I can make it 7 feet tall easy as there are no big bumps on the floor to tip it over. Decisions,decisions.

Makes me wanna do a Halloween mod for my robot too!!

So while I'm waiting for the CYLON armor pieces to be shipped over as I gusss it is a big job to do the Chroming process. I tried to use the EZ camera with ARC to re-create the western Duel in the old BG series. So I noticed the robot would see the red frisbee on my chest and fire the empty BB rifle at me but I would always be the faster draw and put a few real BB's in it's plastic chest first. Is there a faster way for the EZ cam to see me instead of using color? You would think that machine vision would be the faster. Could be just the code I am using, I can try to speed it up some way

I'll be experimenting soon with my own terminator.  But mine will have an ethical code I'm going to experiment with as well.

For the slowness, you are using a relay board to trigger the gun?  I would not discount the engagement time of the relay system if you want a fast shooter.  Ask yourself, "what would Battle Bots do"? cool

It is true that a relay is not as fast as say a digital output on a controller but it is one of the newest 8 channel relay boards from Robot Shop. I will try to use an image of a human shape for the camera to learn and see if that gets a faster response time.

A test I might do to is if it is code or electro/mechanical reaction time would be to use a print statement with data logging.  If you wanted to be fancy you could write the data to a text file or just watch it on a script debug window.  But if you do a print of the $date (which gives you a time/date stamp) and maybe even have the robot make a noise) and see if that happens before or at the same time as your trigger.

#trigger your BB gun
print("Primary Weapon Fired at: " + $date)
Say("BANG!") 

Well one thing I have noticed is when using the Sleep statements in the code ,they are not always timed exactly correct like sometimes too early and sometimes too late, which is weird because it is a digital computer right? Everything should happen at exactly the right time.I have written many scripts over the last 3 years and I always notice timing problems in the code,I try to fix the timing issues but then again the timing goes out of whack.Mostly with Audio coming at the wrong time MP3 or TTS.So when I use an alarm sound for the robot to fire BB's at me, it will respond but usually I can beat it on the gun draw like as if I hear the alarm faster than the robot. It could be just my coding skills still suck too.I'm no DJ for sure!

LOL. That Richard Hatch clip is so campy. I love it. Reminds me of a few Lost In Space episodes. Would there really be a parallel civilization in outer space of the old west of the USA? Controlled by robots? Of course there is! I believe.

It also reminded me of the original 70's movie West world with that cowboy Android going nuts and killing everyone in sight by duel and he always says "Draw" before it kills. Actually I think it even had the same type of machine cameras we use today for tracking human color and infrared heat,Way before it's time!

Ya, West World was one of the creepiest movies I've seen. It really left an impression on me. I think I saw it in first run at a movie theater. Back then you never heard or saw innocent people being randomly killed.  Tragically, now a days it happens all too often.

Actually, I do use all 3 systems Windows,Ubuntu and IOS Apple but thought this was a blast....

I am really interested in other people's Terminator projects so when I saw this it blew me away! Then I kind of noticed the movements do not look real at all, more like the old stop motion camera trick used in first Terminator movie. Also do not see any servos or cables moving, got suspicious, What you guys think? Real or not?

Its beautiful...looks like the guy handcrafted it out of wood!!

To me the head looks like it is driven by servos, would make sense!!

Head over to YouTube guys, the whole thing is made of cardboard and wood...beautiful!! It also has working servos, but probably not on all of those joints!!

Great find...subbed!!

i dont think its real.cause to move such a big arm that smooth,you will need the very expencive servo's excample from robotis.

Lots of liner actuators. They must have spent a fortune on them. The move pretty fast.  Dont know if they are electric or hydraulic.

Ya it still kinda reminds me of that animation show Robot-Chicken ,still a great video if real or not!

I was informed that my Chrome Cylon upper body parts should ship to me this week,leaving me excited about getting them as they are pieces that actually big enough to fit a large man as they are designed as a life size costume. Should I wear it for Halloween when I hand out candy at the door? I would need to put some sort of baseball cap inside the helmet to wear it correctly and make the eye area able to see out. I don't know ,depends how crazy I feel that day,LOL! On a side note I may need to design the Cylon parts to fit on a real Mannequin and then make the arms,head etc movable by servos, Where the hell does one buy a Mannequin?I will first check out the big Halloween store to see what Life size animatronic statues they have but likely too expensive.

A quick search showed that something cool like a walking life size Frankenstein animatronic prop goes for 10.000.00 ---ridiculous and the cheapest was a woman Mannequin with working servos for 180.00 but sold out and the chest would have needed to be removed.

I think I'm in the wrong business....People are actually buying these moving props at inflated ridiculous prices!!

Oh well, I guess if the new Terminator Dark Fate movie opens on November 1st and Halloween is the night before, I may as well release my Terminator bot out into the parking lot to freak out the kids while they trick or treat.

Yeeeeaaaaaahhhh!!!!! Awesome!!!!!

For mannequins I'd check out amazon or ebay.  On ebay I found male mannequins for about $70 US with free shipping.

I saw this video on Scotts FB channel where I am getting all my Cylon chrome body parts, I am so tempted to do this next time my brother performs with his band on stage at the night club. I should just put on all the Cylon armor and helmet and jump on stage with guitar and surprise my Bro's band like that,LOL!!! I am so tempted to be the first Cylon Heavy metal guitar player in the world,LOL!!! What you guys think? I can't really play anything except Black sabbath Iron Man,LOL! it would be so fun! https://vimeo.com/365654886

Dude, yes, but play a cow bell!! Rock ON!!! cool

Yes that's so funny the cow bell indeed! That would still rock and not ruin the rest of the band with my poor guitar skills LOL!!

Aha ha ha! I was at the post office this morning and My Cylon chrome body parts are there but the lady working in the post office says I need to wait until she sorts the new packages for everyone before I can take the package....I say to her but but...but I see it right there on the floor ,my name is on it and she is like no she will send an email to the postal website when it is ready to be picked up??? I am like, but...but...but I am here now and it is right there on the floor! She is just an old lady with her mind set to do it her way,LOL! I can't win so I am here waiting for the email to go to the Postal web site for when I can pick up, Dear God what has this world come too,LOL!

LOL! I swear the same thing happened to me the other day. I was in Walmart shopping for something for my kids and I had an online package coming in that day. I figured, "hey, I haven't got the email yet but the package should be here by now." I call the number and the service desk says "Sorry, the package is still in transit". Too bad, we then headed home. Then surprise, surprise, a hour and a half later I get an email that my package is in. Arrrgggg! hahaha Shakes fist in the air

Believe me I know Jer, The red tape situation is just everywhere these days, I am lucky the post office is just down the street 5 minutes, Going to have lunch and hopefully the Lady has finished her sorting.

Ya so anyway, I am stepping out soon to get my Cylon body parts. I am still going to be missing a few important pieces like the Collar/neck chrome piece and the utility belt piece plus the smaller parts like Arm,knees and shoulder bells. but the 2 biggest parts are here chest and back pack which is where I would like to put all the computer parts,voice synthesiser and an LCD touch screen.Hockey gloves look similar to cylon hands,grab them from canadian tire,LOL! Still planning on using mannequin and robotize the sugar plum out of it so the Cylon will be quick and flexible with real movements.As for walking,no, will still use tank tread system.Thinking of 2 smaller tanks for each leg, I have an idea how this could make it simulate walking using the torque brake system inside with worm gear motors.I have the classic Cylon body parts but still want to simulate the newer Ronald D. Moore CGI Cylons shown in the Battlestar 

Wow nice, even though I ask Scott for his B grade costume parts ,he always sends me stuff that is more Like A grade perfect Flawless chromed pieces! I guess he likes the fact that it will be part of a real working cylon robot instead of just a halloween costume worn once a year. Chest and Back pack!

I know I'm jumping ahead but so excited to get the build started,LOL! Oh I forgot to mention for voice it is just my Google mini speaker using the Home app the voice can be changed from human to robot by just lowering all the slider settings after you choose the English Male "Pink" voice. Thgen Google Mini will always sound like robot ,even when you use news RSS or any google voice apps,Mine tells the time every half hour too.

Wow,back to the Terminator topic,There are books for Terminator Universe??This guy has amazing info on stuff even I didn't know,that is one ugly early Terminator!

Well I think I may not need a mannequin to strap on the Cylon Armor, as I have one of those tall fans that rotate left and right. seems like the perfect size to build cylon exoskeleton customized with wires and pipes to look robotic underneath the chrome armor. Then all I need is to build the robotic pelvis and legs. I want the legs to be able to bend low when it fires it's gun so that is going to be something new for me to invent. I need to see how the fan looks inside to take out the heavy AC motor and see if I can change it to DC servo with existing gear movement Should be fun!

Nice. Found the Terminator Sarah Conner chronicles tv series on net. Binge watching both seasons, very good so far! So a terminator can talk if it loses head but still has rotted skin.Must finish this ep and see what happens next! All stoked for new Terminator movie soon next month...oh just saw. ..full endoskeleton can talk!!!!!

What?  What episode of Sarah Conor Chronicles shows an endo talking?  I loved that show in first run.  To bad it ended.  The "John Henry" was pretty interesting.

And yeah, knowing that their flesh rotts if not cared for brings a new level to the first terminator movie, because he just didnt care much about his "camouflage".   But in T2, until the very end his wounds were dressed.  But in T1, when the land lord knocks on his door and asks, "hey buddy, did your cat die or something?", it really paints a pictures of how stinky he must have been.  Lol

Hey Justin, i think it was ep 3 or 4 when masked terminator breaks into science guys house to regenerate his skin in the bath tub. Before he dis robes he is talking with a low garbled voice and reveals himself full endoskeleton.

Too funny the Zombie land 2 Sequel. They have the new zombies that take hundreds of bullet hits but keep getting up, Nick named Terminators or T-800's!

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/terminator/9257/terminator-the-sarah-connor-chronicles-season-2-episode-22-review

Wow trying to find the last episode of Terminator/sarah chronicles was tough but really worth the effort, was just as good as the very first Terminator movie because they copied much of it. Too bad they did not do a 3rd season as it was getting really Sci-Fi good!

Nice!! Terminator dark fate has hit the interwebs if you know where to look, a week early. So much action i can hardly type this out! That new T- model is just sic

Edit---- So after watching new Terminator movie I gotta say I will actually pay money to see this in the movie theater when it opens. I hope there will be a 3d version to go see, as the movie is non-stop action from start to end. Don't listen to any critics that say it is Lame,slow or boring it is in fact the opposite to us normal people! I won't spoil this for anyone but I gotta say I am happy to see the future of Teminator movies looks promising .The funny thing about it though, that tick me off is the Hollywood democratic influence they spin at the beginning. With the millions of Illegal aliens coming through Mexico border getting put in detention camps that look like prison when they are actually treated too well. What the hell,that is just sad to see it in movies .The new Terminator hero to carry the Terminator franchise is an illegal Mexican,LOL!

So with Teminator dark fate on my pc I can now add some really cool Arnold 1 liners to my robot Terminator!

hey guys look the ultimate terminator game.

Right on Nomad! That was a good find, I will be doing something similar next summer programming artificial Intelligence into Terminator and the second robot a classic Cylon. They will battle each other with Laser Tag system and I will allow people to take control of a robot over internet for player VS player battles, should be fun and it will be outside as well EDIT---- And as a side note, for anyone new reading this, None of this would be possible with out the EZ robot Controller system,Screw Arduino, LOL!

Very cool, the new CTV space channel is showing StarTrek the motion picture from /82 I think, I have seen it about 50 times at least,That first one and Wrath of Khan are some of the best Sci-Fi ever made.Today the sci-fi are a dime a dozen and all non imaginative dribble. Where have all the best sci-fi screen writers gone?

@Robo rad.  Have you seen "The Expanse" series?  Was on SciFy (not sure where it was shown in Canada) but now on Amazon Prime.  Best Sci Fi TV since Babylon 5.

Alan

I agree with Alan  The Expanse series is very well made and written.  The problem with these series is they take  a very long time to come out with next season, sometimes over a year.

I try to watch these new space series that come out but after the 2nd or 3rd show the storyline is just too slow or they purposely make the plot line too complicated to follow so early in the season, I find my self bored and never go back. There was one I just loved years ago called Space Above and Beyond,awesome series. The new Trek looks promising on this thursday and hoping new "Picard" series will prove interesting as well.

The Expanse is awesome #trustallan

You know, nothing makes me more angry than these new sci-fi writers that think it is cool or Artsy to write a sci-fi script and get it made into a movie, then leave it with no ending! Oh my God! I see that all the time now. I just saw one that seemed like a good story "400 days" They get these space cadets to go under ground for 400 days to simulate a voyage to Mars,cool things happen and then it just ends where there should be more explaining of what really happened, you are left completely confused and feel like you wasted an hour and a half! Like is everyone dead or aren't they all dead, who knows because it ends! Grrrrr.

Maybe you need to stay 400 days under ground youself to understand the full scope of it!!  Just make sure you take enough supplies...like beer!!

Oh yeah,for sure would need beer underground, 400 days is a long time,LOL!

Think of how many Terminators/Cylons could be built in 400 days of no disruptions in a nice quiet bunker with no one to bother you...just you and your code, some beer, some tunes and some 3d printers.   Now there is a Terminator movie!  "Terminator:400 Days of Synthiam" dun dun, dun, dundun

Robo Rad, Ray Butts drinking whiskey to Johnny Cash was awesome...

Lol, I'm definitely with you @Robo Rad.

"Ascension" and "Salvation" are two shows that I wish had an ending.

You guys aren't the only ones talking about "The Expanse", here at the office it has some fans too. I'll have to check it out!

If you want to check out "the Expanse" make sure you watch from the beginning or it will be confusing. as it has a very good but complex story line.

Oh no, complex story line, that is where I Zone out ,need laser effects,Explosions, psycho killer robots or my attention span drops like Homer Simpson except more like an intellectual Homer.

If you can build and control a robot then you will have no trouble understanding the series Expanse.

Oh for sure I will check it out. While I do have a whacky sense of humor I am a serious Sci-Fi  nut. started in public school where I spent all my time reading the classic Sci-Fi books of  authors like Ray Bradbury,Arthur C. Clark, and the awesome books from Robert A. Heinlein(wrote starship troopers in 1959) and the insane Robot Berzerker sci-fi books from Fred Saberhagen,where much of his fiction about robots has come to pass in many Movies. The Berzerkers were a race of highly advanced robots that came to war with Earth and the stories were mind blowing. The idea that Humans had to dumb down their weapons to defeat the advanced robots by using giant spears on ships called Lancers..Oh I can go on but all these cool ideas were all stolen for Hollywood movies.

Well if you really want to see some big action, I am just watching the re-make of Midway 2019 just on my TV but this really should be seen in the Theater if you like vintage war planes . Edit----After watching that I should say it was amazing considering the classic Midway had all the best actors in History,to replicate that today,they also have all the greatest actors of today! Just when you think the action is over they add even more action! I would definitely pay money to see this in the theater and then when it comes out on Blue Ray buy it for the collection to watch over and over!

Last Edit-----so before going back to robot topic just wanted to add that I saw the new Stephen King part 2 of the classic horror The Shining called "Doctor Sleep." The first time I watched it last week I fell asleep near the beginning where it is a bit slow moving.I saw it again today and it is a great story as it gets better towards the middle and end.They actually go back to the original Shining Hotel!!!!!

So my original plan was to build the Terminator to be a Giant 6-7 foot real robot mascott that would move around on a concert stage. Now after I just watched the new Slayer feature movie on the net,it was released world wide theaters Nov 6th.It was Awesome,2 hours of Brutal violence from Actors like Danny Trejo and cut scenes of Slayer performing out doors. It was violent and heavy for sure! This made me think of getting the original plan to work during this long winter as I have many Musician friends that could be interested in my project.My Cylon build will also happen at the same time so I plan to get really busy.

Winter is coming!!!

Oh yeahhh, winter started here last week.It's Friday today going to have a few beers tonight! The reason i mention that is because I used to waste too much time going out with Friends after work to bars or strip clubs. Wasting too much money! Now I only get a 6 pack on friday nights and just enjoy my free time working with the EZB. I now save the money but it just goes to buy robot electronics! Still saving money and gotta Thank all you people at Synthium and EZ robot. The feeling I get when a robot script comes alive in the robot and it actually works correctly. I never thought it would be so easy to build a Terminator that roams outside able to shoot a bb rifle at any targets that work with A.I. from a camera! Although sometimes I miss going to the peeler bars with my best buds!

Well after3 or 4 months of using the Latte Panda mini computer on my Terminator and then for using to stream TV shows and movies all day and night,never turning it off,it finally just froze for the first time,this has been the best PC I have ever bought,my larger desk tops would freeze up once a week in comparison. I did buy the little CPU fan with it so that could be why it is such a screaming performer and never crashing! My opinion on the 4 Gig Ram Panda with unregistered win10 is 10 out of 10:D!

Still no love for Ray Butts

Thanks for the endorsement Robo Rad. I am probably going to get a couple of these for my robots. It's nice to hear how well they preform and stand up.

Do you have any close up pictures of how you mounted your Latte Panda and have it wired? I looked through your posts above and didn't find anything I could see well.

Hi Dave, The Panda also came with the see through Acrylic case to put the main board in and protect it,there is an opening for where the small fan sits on the CPU and it looks just so futuristic and beautiful when all the L.E.D. lights shine through the Acrylic. Looks gorgeous when mounted on robot body! It is now just used as my main computer for winter as I am in the winter apartment until next April.I use it for everything and my giant desktop sits unused now,LOL! The Panda CPU power is just amazing as it is only a Quad core but I see no difference in computing power when compared to my big desktop 8 core CPU (And Radeon R7 video card). I am using the Panda now as well to browse the net,The only thing it likely can't do is play advanced Graphic games which I really don't need it for anyway ,as that is what the big desktop does on occasion.When I get my Cylon robot running I may buy another Panda to mount on the Cylons Chrome back pack.Right now the pack just has fake light decals recreated for the Galactica TV show but adding another Acrylic panda would give it real flashing L.e.D.'s to make it look way better.If you look closely near end of vid ,the small fan and red L.E.D. is where panda is just under EZB4, The EZ3 is the flashing blue to the right,hard to see because case is see through

Wow check out this youtuber that built an animatronic prop using Pneumatic air cylinders,very cool!....

Ahh, I thought that looked like the old V3 EZB. I miss that blue heart beat LED.

Which Panda did you go with, the 4G/64GB or the 2G/32GB?

Ya, Pneumatic air cylinders are great but noisy.

The 4 Gig/64 drive version is the better one I got. is all you will ever need for robot programming.You save money when you get the unregistered Win10 version but it does almost everything thr registered version does except you cant add pretty pictures to customize your win10 color background,as if I cared LOL! People are brainwashed to think they need the registered win10 when it is not needed at all.

Thanks man! A couple more questions please, Do you get any warning windows that stalls startup with an unregistered version? Do you have to manually push the power button on the Panda each time you start up your robot?

Unregistered version nag message is just always there,small partially transparent in the bottom right corner but has no interference in any programs and you completely forget about it. There is ways to get Panda to turn on and off by itself but I have never tried to explore that yet.

Sorry...could not help it!!

Ah ha ha! Nice I want that now for my Terminator collection! I'm guessing that is early Nintendo or sega ,Possibly DJ may know as he has everything. The PC game Salvation from 2014 or 16? does look fantastic but I can't find it anywhere yet as it got dis continued early possibly Ebay or Amazon I may find that. It is funny how all the comments are saying that 8 bit game looked better than the new Dark Fate movie,Ha ha I am starting to agree even though I am still a big Terminator Fan.

Well Hey now! Today we got a good break in the weather,very mild,no snow and the roads dried up,so I made my way to the summer cottage to grab all my robot parts and bring them to my winter place over by Georgian Bay.(in the main town Wasaga Beach)Now this winter can snow like crazy and I got all my tools and parts! Going to put a note on the door saying "Go away ,Mad scientist at work!" The Cylon project is a go!

So I have this 4 foot tall Fan that turns left and right when it's plugged into AC. I am going to mount the Cylon head ,the back pack and front chest. Then when it goes on the wheeled base it is roughly 6 foot tall,Also in summer it will then still function as a fan and be a robot at same time. Will need to build new servo arms for it.Also another servo in the neck.

So I am studying the new version of the classic centurians designed for Battlestar Galactic Razor movie..there are tons of pics that I can imitate for real.

I was trying last night to see how the chrome armor would fit on the fan but after I tried to pick it up,realized this fan is extremely heavy and could burn out the tank motors, so I am looking around for lighter alternatives,this build I want to make perfect with speed,agility and battery efficiency.

So,Ya this is the Link for anyone interested in a new Terminator game 'Resistance" kind of expensive at $50.00 CDN but if you are a fan the visuals look good but voice acting a bit Lame and controls not the greatest....https://store.steampowered.com/app/954740/Terminator_Resistance/

Ya this is kind of the direction I am going with the 6 foot Man size/Monster Cylon build. Next I need to mount the huge chromed back pack on the aluminum body and hook up some lights and electronics on the back pack.I still need to buy many chromed pieces to truly make it classic Cylon,1 piece at a time.

Maaaaan I saw this and thought it is a chrome beer keg!!! That would be the best thing ever, why did it never cross my mind before!! Just imagine, the Terminator serving you a cold beer...Hasta La Vista, Baby!! I am getting thirsty!!!

Hey ya a beer keg could likely fit inside and just add a tap! I had to shorten it now a few feet since it was too hard to work on that tall and I still need to add more body parts anyway. Got the back pack on with a simulated fan that hides the cheap fan decoration it had. still want to add more like the Touch screen for the Latte Panda.Oh ya and in the Battlestar universe they are jokingly refered to as "Toasters" due to all the chrome,LOL!

Well even though there is no Black Friday sale happening for the Terminator Resistance PC game, I decided to buy it anyway,as it just looks too amazing with the graphics so I will likely be gone for a while getting heavy into the Terminator universe! I also decided to buy Fallout 4 because it is on sale at about 60 percent discount and there are really cool robot battles in it.

Have fun getting lost!!

Well  I certainly had to take a break from the Terminator PC game, It gets difficult after about 1 hour when this is when the real game starts getting good as you are about to enter the hospital controlled by psycho robots experimenting on captive humans and this is where you run into dozens of T-800 guarding the place which you can't kill yet just stun them for 30 seconds so you can run away,LOL,better weapons come later on. I was watching Battlestar Razor and some newer battlestar with the newer bots,how they move and shoot their guns, Gave me a wicked idea how to improve my real robotic Terminator arms,extend the shoulder joints and mimic the way they really shoot with 2 guns in each arm(built in) . I am bloody excited now to try this for the Cylon build,will be epic!

Edt-----side note, I am not familiar with bright strobing lights or the flash bulbs used in cameras. Can anyone suggest a really bright flashing strobe light that could simulate the muzzle flashes from machine guns? Something that the EZB could control with my relay board and reasonable voltage input? I have an older 12 volt strobe light insine my Terminator skull but is not bright enough to resemble muzzle flash.

I have decided to change the Cylon inner body aluminum can to something more human shaped for the inner Torso, similar in shape to all you guys building the 3d printed Inmoov robots. I don't have a 3d printer but I just shop for stuff online in sporting good stores,found this great ABS plastic formed body armor for football that has the look I want and the chrome will still fit over it plus light weight is a bonus.

@Robo Rad  I like the look of the body armour, I think you are going into a better more professional look.  I have to ask How you can work on robotics without a 3d printer I cannot guess.  My printer is a flsun chinese large Delta and it has made two inmoov robots, upper torso and five other robots and a talking head, all 3d printed . it was under $200.00 from china free shipping. the printer has been running over seven years, without issues.  you could use some of the Inmoov body parts to use with your Cylon.

Yes thanks that is great info on the 3d printer! I do want to get one soon as it proves to be a valuable resource when you have a part idea in your head but no way to find it or produce it. I always fall back on my artistic side and become like that miracle worker on the old tv show Macgyver who just creates important parts out of scraps he finds lying around, I am good at that...but not always.

I cut things up with a dremel and saw before I had a 3d printer. Lots of hand sanding and carpel tunnel inducing work.

I am going to try a new filament it is carbon graphite filled nylon,  it very strong but easier to print then regular nylon. which can warp and shrink.  I made planetary gears for my inmoov's elbow, using regular nylon and it was difficult, but I think you have to build strong if you are making a robot.  my first inmoov had pla filament, Inmoov1 had a fall and I was 2 months replacing broken parts.  Inmoov2 uses nylon and PET-G  very tough,   3D printing is a very slow process some parts can take days to print, so you have to be very patient.

Yeah man...get a printer, they are super cheap these days!! Does not mean, that you'd have to abandon being a scavenger... But it will be much easier to make all these intricate parts that would be impossible to make without one!!

If you want to make part that is super durable, then 3d print it, clean it up, sand it , prime it and  use amazing remelt or recast to make a temp mold to cast parts in durable polyurethane or other resin.

Man, I cannot wait for you to show us how you do this!!

It will be coming either late december or january I think.

Sounds great for people like me that have no experience 3d printing! Seems so sci-fi creating objects by computer. Speaking of which,had to take another break from that Terminator Resistance game,so addictive! They have made this game so real to the Terminator universe, The T-800 skeletons are so highly advanced artificial intelligence, you need to come up with other strategy to kill them. If you try to take one down at close range,forget it,will end badly for you most of the time. Usually with the thing grabbing your neck and slamming you to the ground! This is actually way better than the recent movie, Will be coming out on game consoles for December and I predict this will be a huge seller. For PC you can get it now on steam.The only way to kill T-800's you need to get the red or purple plasma rifle and hit them like 20 times from far away,or several pipe bombs,LOL!

there are lots of 3d parts for cylons,  so you do not have to design the parts yourself. just download maybe cut and print.

Holy S--T Are you serious? I mean wow!! That would save me serious coin if I could make those myself, I would build a whole Cylon army patrolling my cottage next summer,LOL! That is about the coolest thing I have seen all year as I just bought the Back pack and chest plate for abut $250.00 but that included the Chroming,still wow! Well you know I have always been a fast learner with computers I started building PC from scratch when I was 16 so I have built hundreds of them since and trouble shooting computer problems with hardware or software has been something I always do on the side to help people and make a little side cash so I am really interested now in getting one of these printers. What is a reccomended 3d printer for large robot parts like that back pack?

I only have good things to say about my Crealty 10s. It is great for bigger parts too.

If you go to thingiverse and search on cylons you will find a lot of models already.

This caught my attention https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2482245

@Robo Rad , if you really want to one piece the print then get a Creality C10 S5 but they are 700 bucks. However if you are ok with printing it into maybe 4 pieces and glue them together then get a Creality Ender 3 Pro with glass bed for $230 on Amazon. I just got two of them from UPS today!

Hey thanks Jstarne will start researching, most likely go with one that can make big parts and is there difference in speed with these units?

$719 20 x 20 x 20 inch Bed https://www.amazon.com/Official-Creality-CR-10S-S5-500x500x500mm/dp/B07S9YYRJ7/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=creality+s5&qid=1575331485&sr=8-4

or Creality Ender 3 Pro w Glass Bed 9 x9 x 9 $230

https://www.amazon.com/Official-Creality-Certified-Meanwell-220x220x250mm/dp/B07VMG98ZN/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?keywords=ender+3+pro&qid=1575331632&sprefix=ender&sr=8-6

They print the same speed , but I leverage using several cheap and small printers to make parts faster. For example if you cut a part into two pieces instead of one it prints twice as fast. If you have 4 cheap small printers and cut up a print into 4 pieces then you get your print done 4 times faster. More print nozzles means faster printing.

Wow okay good to know thanks!

Now when researching stores online I see very little where to buy and the models they offer range from $1500.00--$8000.00 and this is why people like me get instantly put off the whole idea of ever getting a printer. So now that I know to ignore the commercial stores and just look at these suggested 3d print machines at Amazon ,$700 for a big machine I get questions like why are they so cheap? Are these Chinese knock off versions? Why don't the commercial stores in N.America sell them at that price in the physical stores? Too many questions,more research I need but I am guessing Amazon is the best source then.

Edit----So looking at the different print materials I see that there is also stainless steel compound that can be used to make robot parts such as Terminator skeleton bones,then left raw un-polished or polished to resemble Chrome! So is this the reason why Printers vary in price? The 700.00 dollar ones can't do Metallized material only Platic compounds? Oh I wrote too soon, I see that the Link https://www.amazon.com/Official-Creality-CR-10S-S5-500x500x500mm/dp/B07S9YYRJ7/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=creality+s5&qid=1575331485&sr=8-4 does support copper material,HMM I am thinking about getting one then. I am also forgetting that Amazon.com is U.S. prices while finding on Amazon.ca may be nearly double in Canadian dollars---Well just checked and the same company does not sell this 2019 model but do sell an older version for same price canadian around $700.00,good to know,hope my research here helps others looking to buy in Canada and thanks to Jstarne!

@Robo rad.  you do not need to go nuts buying a large print bed printer, to build a inmoov robot you only need a 4.6 inch build bed most printers are much larger then that.  the flsun printer large delta is 185mmx185mmx 315mm more then large enough to print even the legs of inmoov. delta printers are faster then Cartesian printers and take up much less room. and under 300.00 canadian with free shipping from china.  I suggest you research this and don't take just our word.  the process of 3d printing is very slow anyway and if you print parts on a very large printer thay could take days to print and something goes wrong, and a lot can go wrong.  that is a lot of wasted filament, and time.  all I say is research this.

Yes thanks Nallycat, I have started looking what they got on Ebay.ca and I could start off smaller with those great prices, still reading much info on the subject but greatly appreciate all the helpful info from you guys!

I don't know I'm just stuck on this boss fight,Terminator resistance game, The way this youtuber plays is no help,seems like he has cheats activated because you can't take risks the way he does,I get as far as the point where 1 more missile will destroy it but all hell breaks loose around you too,never survive...

Well, it took me all night to complete the whole Terminator game,All week to finish! was it worth $50.00?  Oh hell ya!! Epic battle at the end similar to the T-Genysis movie where that movie starts is where the game ends,nicely put the whole Terminator story all together! The sex scenes were absolutely funny as LOL! The purple plasma mini gun is freak'n awesome! I would say this beats all the C.O.D and Battlefield games as not to be repetitive,so much action and different things to do.I will replay all the levels again because there were so many places I did not explore and secondary missions I skipped...could go on but you get the point. So many Easter eggs about the Terminator universe, for T-fans this is a must have!

Here is some promo video James Cameron made when He first wanted to continue T2 Judgement day but titled Future war,then he never completed it.Stars Arnold and that whiny kid John conner.Bet you never seen it,starts after the original future war  scenes in the first few T films about 5 minutes in.

While I am waiting for the new body armor to arrive tomorrow, I have the helmet attached so it is well balanced and can move freely as if it is on a ball-joint.When I add servo movements to the neck ,I need it to move it's head like a real person because it has no moving mouth, it should articulate with helmet movements when it is talking.They told the original cylon actors inside the suit to shake and nod there head when ever they talked in the original Battlestar tv show.

Hey there,I know the philosophy of Jeremy and DJ that robots are not meant to harm anyone and should be built to be friends of man,not war machines bent on man's destruction. Last summer I had some fun building my Terminator T-800 Endo into a robotic mobile A.I. camera-vision ,seeking targets to "destroy" with an A.E.G. soft pellet machine gun. In fact twice it almost shot me in the face,as the EZ cam A.I. was really excellent at finding moving targets to shoot at,including me,LOL! I am now in the planning process to modify my Terminator EZ scripts for the new Cylon. Wondering if I should plan for friendly contact with other humans coming around curious to see the 6 foot Cylon roaming the property next summer. This would be going against the original story lines of tv show creator(R.I.P.) Glen Larson and newer re-imagining creator/producer Ronald D Moore.Although Moore did change the Cylon's purpose near the end of his series with Cylon kind becoming one with human kind and seeking God. Programming the classic cylon could be fun to make it friendly,different but I have some ideas of how this could be done.

I think I mentioned I also bought Fallout 4 because I really enjoyed the Fallout 3 PS3 robot battles,have not had time to start #4 yet as busy working on real bot but took a peek at some of the new robot battles on YT.

The originally series I don't remember all the ins and outs of that.  There were lizards, right?  FaceMan on it!  Now the the 2000's Ronald D. Moore series I remember the heck out of that...those Cylons were built to serv humans until they turned on humans.

Sooooo, just program your Cylon to be friendly and serv humans.... and wait for it tor turn... THEN, it's an accurate full recreation of a Cylon.

I mean if you get bored you could force the issue and set a random timer code script to turn your Cylon evil at an unknown interval so you have to prepare and be on guard for a Cylon attack all the time!    If you do, you need to vlog and live stream that stuff!!!  

Haha ya! I had a similar idea to program key words to be used as to transform the robot into defensive mode depending on what humans say to it in conversation! You are right the original cylons killed there creators that were Lizard Aliens and the Imperious leader was always a Lizard shaped robot designed to pay respect to their Lizard origins.

I try to stay on Terminator and robot related subjects here but an interesting Terminator-Arnold side note, Did you know Arnold has a son that looks like a young Johnny Depp,so I was just watching a new movie out from his son, very impressed with his acting skill,good movie too,check it out called Daniel isn't real 2019.

I am always on the look out for anything robot related and damn I think I need the Oculis Rift VR head set in order to try out these incredible P.C. VR robot games,there are 2 that I would like to try ,here is one of them demo...

Well after a search it seems that this VR experience can be had on the newest Oculus Quest which needs no PC it is stand alone using google phone tech built into the headset with OLED display just as good as the thousand dollar Rift But at a cheaper price of 399 USD. Unfortunately super popular just before Christmas and sold out everywhere,good luck finding one until the new year later on

I bought a Quest some time ago, to build the remote VR control for my robot... I thought, I will only use it for tinkering and building stuf, well!!

It is my recommendation for VR at the moment! Low level entry price, good screens, 6 DOF tracking and all the hardware you need is in the device...so it is basically plug and play!!

And if you own a PC the meets the requirements, you can also ply Oculus or Steam VR from your PC!! Check out the Oculus Link feature, its in Beta at the moment!!

Yes you are correct I just spent 2 hours watching comparison videos between Quest and Oculus s and it seems the slightly older Oculus S is getting described as obsolete now that Quest can also link to your high end gaming computer with a 20 dollar USB C cable and they are both selling at 550.00 CND  at best buy and Amazon.Quest can do way more things and run just as smooth with sharper OLED screens and run all types of 3D movies while you are out and about riding a bus,so ya ,I will be getting one my brother has 2 drones as well that would look cool flying with the VR on.

You will not regret it!!

I know but now i need to decide which to buy first.Hours of fun 3d printing or hours of entertainment in 3d on the Quest!

Oh my god.Watching the new Jumanji 2019 novie on kodi,just about the funniest movie ever! Laughig so hard i got tears bursting out! Danny Devito is now The rocjk LoL!!!

In the world of VR I found another way to access your PC using the much cheaper Oculus Go system,going for 200 in USA and 250 here in Canada that is half the price of the new Quest! You only need to add a 12.00 dollar App from Oculus store called Virtual desktop,no Latency and you can then watch all the same streaming movies or hard drive movies on your big Computer and even play all the same PC games! Like I am hoping to re-play Terminator now on the VR will look like on a 100 inch theater screen! Game changer app!..https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/1261331807302580/?locale=en_U

I also believe there will be many cool uses on the Cylon robot to see what the robot see when outside talking to people, I will be able to see the ARC camera view from robot on the Oculus Go and take control in VR If something bad happens like Cylon becomes agressive and starts beating up kid with baseball bat,LOL!

The Oculus Go is double rainbows...but cheap!!

Playing Lone Echo on my Quest via Oculus Link at the moment!! It is amazing!!

Oh I so know every detail of both the Quest and the Go,I have followed so many product reviews on both. I have decided to get the dirt cheap Go even with all the reported flaws because many people that own the High end S or Vibe always say they turn to their dirt cheap Go just because it is so much more convenient to use and nothing to set up so ideal for 3d movies and taking anywhere. I actually want both,try the Cheaper Go and later next year upgrade to Quest for the extra features. Forgot to mention I also bought the rest of the chrome cylon body pieces that I need to complete upper body from waist up,arms chrome shoulder bells,he gave me a great deal on all of it!

So I can confirm that the Cheaper Oculus Go can in fact get streaming movies and PC games using a couple of programs ,Big screen Beta and Virtual desktop but Virtual D. is 11.00 while Big screen is a Free App and they boh do the same thing.You will need fast internet and a really good PC to make this work ,however. You can use Netflix and even all Kodi movies are streaming to my Oculus Go! It really does look like you are at a super huge IMAX theater screen sitting about 20 feet away,It is so Glorious I about cry from how good it looks. I even played Fallout 4 from my PC streaming on to Oculus using Big screen with no delays! I am sure the more expensive newer Quest does look a bit better but for what I paid on the "Go" I am super happy! About to search all 3d movies on Kodi and get blown away by Imax 3d!

The big difference is...with the Quest you are not streaming the game to a screen, you are IN the game!!

Happy to hear you are having a blast with your Oculus Go!!

Yes I know the robot games built for Quest and Oculus S are really amazing! I was surprised to see hundreds of games and apps already in the Go store,many are free.And put you inside the game in VR with basic 4 point movement,love the VR short movies and youtube has hundreds more in vr! The one where I nearly barfed was the actual roller coaster ride at Canadas 's Wonderland,after that I had to run to the toilet and almost Barf,the feeling you get is real when the roller coaster is falling! The one where the lady takes you from Earth up in the clouds and then in space was mind blowing! I did get my newest Terminator PC game working perfectly using Virtual Desktop and it is also in the game VR .To see 7 foot tall terminators coming at you is just absolute Horror!.

Not all of us robot builders are nerds, I am opposite,LOL!....cool

Anyone with a dog need a high tech pooper scooper?-----https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/pooper-scooper-robot-will-find-detect-and-automatically-pick-up-your-dogs-poo/

don't let Jstarnel  see this have you seen a Ladybug pooper-scooper . justg kidding Jstarnel

Way ahead of you , lol I saw Beetl a while back, apparently it is a dead project from 2017. I would like to have a accessory for the LEVi platform to detect and pickup doggy presents

What does bluejeans have to do with picking up doggy doo?

LEVi Rover is the name of the modular platform I am working on right now, it is one of my dogs name. I’m going to have several attachment options to customize the ability of the platform outdoors. One of those being a pooper scooper.