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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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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.
Oh that is interesting, what is going to be your drive/motor system on the Levi Rover? I am still using 2 12 volt car window lift worm gear motors, super torque but running at 10-15 amps each uses more battery power, I need 3 of those motorcycle/wheel chair batteries fully charged to run all day.That is just moving around and pausing,can't run steady for longer than 20 minutes at a time because outside in my hilly grass ,the motors use up even more amps causing the motors to heat up, Wondering about better wheel drive cheaper motors bit more efficient on power and less heating up.My robots are heavy too at 5-6 feet tall. The old Rad robots I used 3 years ago worked well with the 2 small tank motors outside running at just 6 volts but those bots were only plastic 2-3 foot tall. They were excellent rovers. Looking for something more modern and better than car window motors for the big Cylon this summer.
Those are all good questions. There are worms gear drive motors that are both quiet and cool you could use. I am using tsiny ball bearing dc worm gear motors. 160rpm to start with and provide 40 kg cm torque each at around 1-2 amps. Since the LEVi is 6wd that is 240kgcm of usable torque. My favorite part is they lock when not powered and make very little noise ( like any well built robotic platform should)
If you can get more specific with each robot I a happy to help pair up better motors for your particular use and better efficiency on power draw than 15 amps.