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Wheeler Chair Robot
I saw that last year somebody had built a wheel chair robot?. My idea for the new Robot will be as a stage mascot that can also pretend to play the drums on stage. My brother has a live Metal band every Saturday night and most of the time we have trouble with no drummer showing up. We end up using a Drum machine instead with the 2 other guys on real guitars and singing. So Terminator will be able to move around and substitute behind the drum kit with the Live drum machine signal activating terminator arms at the drums. Also need him to move around in a wheel chair , so is anyone out there that has done this wheel chair hack, looking for suggestions on power/motor controller connections etc...should not be too hard just larger than I'm used to building. This is a youtuber that bought what I just bought,takes a month to get from China and we are building the rest of the Endoskeleton to integrate in wheel chair....
Related Hardware EZ-B v4
...and for my next nifty test the Cylon robot will ride around the park on his woke climate change E-- bike..(Later this day)..video of the Cylon riding over the bridge into the river will upload after finding the camera in river...Nah just Messing with you guys:)
Well the custom Movement Panel is all nicely programmed in. Looking forward to testing out in the field in the morning!
Just got up now, first thing was to let robot go out the door, using a Bluetooth wireless keyboard as remote control...ready to roll!:)
Test was going good but since the negative battery terminal was too loose it seemed to die on power, after I wiggled it the power came back so looking good so far.
3rd Robot test today was with adding a second battery 7.4 Lipo 5 Amp to the EZB controller. So now the big 12 volt battery gives full current to the motor controller /motors.Way more power coming now, still thinking of adding another 12 volt battery as well for long run time,these are wheel chair batteries too.
So trying out the camera view as I am controlling the robot inside the cottage at my Laptop. The WiFi has limitation to end of driveway and then loses the control signals. Range will nearly double if I bring Laptop out on the porch with line of sight. Still I was impressed how far it would go!:)
I have decided to build a much stronger pro looking all terrain 6 wheeled robot platform for use indoors and outdoors. My brother has a great idea to rebuild using aluminum frame and mounting all the wheels from my 2 robots and combine them onto 1 aluminum wheel based frame.a chain drive added to front 4 wheels and the 2 back wheels remain 360 degree turning wheels for added support to heavy robot. I can't wait to see what he comes up with. Obviously all that plastic will be eliminated too.
For my Roomba/ Terminator I needed a quick fix to keep taller Terminator body on top to stop falling over due to balance and faster speed-- stopping. This rotating wheel from Canadian Tire, like 20 dollars, is perfect for back to stop Tipping over on taller robot bodies.As you see it works when weight added to Roomba.