Canada
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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....


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#1025   — Edited

Well damn, 3 times I tried posting update photo, only 2 mb so what going on?okay had to add reinforcements to lower bucket. As tall as me and looking mean! this time okay.

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#1026  

Got the left arm back on today ,not sure if I should use the top EZB or the bottom EZB for arm servos, likely the top as the bottom one controls motors and navigation with 12 volt battery which servos can't really use simplistically.

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#1027  

There should be some dry hours tomorrow when rain quits, will give it a try outside , may still need to change that 1 old wheel motor with a new one but it still works for now.

#1029  

Thanks Justin, the only real issue is I should have bought 2 new motors instead of 1 new and one 7 year old motor on the other side. The shaft keeps wobbling loose causing the wheel nuts to also loosen. Not much choice ,will need to replace that worn out motor too, shame because it still has good power.

#1030  

So I took the older wheel motor off to inspect. The shaft seems tight normal! It looks more like the motor bracket is not straight, just need to bend it slightly to the left to get wheel rolling straight!

#1031   — Edited

Ya now it is the back left rotating trainer wheel that Is getting too much friction stiffness from the heavy battery at back. Will try moving that battery on top of front axel to see if that helps. Or then we will try another design.

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Belgium
#1032  

hey roborad.

the cylon could use some springs for the wheels .

springs