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.