
robo rad
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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
Huh? Would you believe our Walmart super store does not sell any spools of wire? not in electrical or automotive section! Then even the trusty dollar store everything else but no wire! I guess I need to drive way far out to look for a hardware store.I want to re-do all my robot wires new and something I have never used before is that shrink wrap stuff to seal wire ends.Since it will be an outdoors robot.Another thing after that is looking into how to add more ControlCommand lines to EZB(I love those,so powerful!) I want to do what others are doing to have the mini computer wake up in responce to outside alarms or on the clock wake ups.Then activate EZ Bv4 on startup whiuch can then activate start up programs inside ARC. The Windows Vocoder program I have specialized for the classic Cylon voice needs to be able to come on by itself to allow the robot speech in the EZB.So this is something new I have never experimented before .Going to wrap my head around programming with all the ControlCommand functions,just need to set aside some extra time to learn more. Any advice on starting windows programs on EZB wake up appreciated to point me in right direction.
Well I think I was wasting too many Amps last summer on the Terminator computer set up,reducing my run time outside with the wheel motors.To stay energy efficient this year with the new Cylon set up I am now re-wiring everything and only using the electronics that are 100 percent needed and cutting out anything that was wasting amps.You can see in the video last summer I had too much going on there! I do want to keep using that Terminator's voice and use it for Cylon voice as it is a good compromise for Clarity VS Distortion. I like that you can understand every word the Google TTS engine is producing from the RSS news feeds. I am just really bummed out that the bluetooth on that android phone now keeps cutting out and I can't seem to fix it anymore,will need to just wire it directly to a speaker the same as with EZB,but I want to only use the phone with Mobile ARC to save battery power.I want maximum run time this year
I was in that Ad Hoc mode in EZB for so long I forgot how to change it back to Wi-Fi client mode! First I forgot to add my network name and was just trying only my network password,for 20 minutes not working everytime.Then I added the network proper name and my password still not working,tried another half hour.Finally,I realized the password is case sensitive so I had to add 1 capitol letter on the password and also had to add a tiny space in between the letters and a dash,then it worked,god I hate doing that everytime it screws me up for hours! Now the same type situation with my Android phone,The Bluetooth would keep disconnecting after 30 seconds ALL THE TIME. It took me days of resetting the phone back to Factory setting,re-adding all my apps and then still the bluetooth was not connecting properly to my Google Home mini speaker nest. Was at my wits end. Finally today at my last straw I just simply turned it off,pressed the volume buttons together for 10 seconds just as a wild guess,Suddenly the phone comes on in some type of " Safe Mode" and I thought okay lets see if Bluetooth will stay on. It bloody well did 1 minute ,3 minutes,half hour it was working!Then all I did was reboot it back to normal and the bluetooth was still working! Why that worked I have no clue but now I got my robot voice back for the robot,damn what a bad few days!
Aw man @Robo Rad, we definitely have those days as robot builders eh?!? Glad to hear everything is working again!
What kind of phone was it that you were having trouble with?
LOL! Ya Jer today I just took a day off to just drive around go spend money,get some KFC and beer ,then just plop in front of the TV to watch movies on KODI. Did not even look at the robot with half the wires that still need connecting. I feel better now,stress level back to normal. @Jstarne1 ,my phone is a 4 year old LG and the bluetooth is miraculously still working,the only thing that fixed it was the accidental booting in safe mode and then just rebooting back to normal,Why that could possibly fix it is amazing,everyone with bad bluetooth should just try that on their phones! You won't find that info anywhere on the internet it was just a wild guess for me as even factory reset did not work,all that did was delete all my apps and it was so frustrating to add all the apps back,wish I would have tried the safe mode first!
Well after a bunch of coffee and some epic robot battles in my PC game/Oculus "borderlands 2" I started re wiring my 2 sonar sensors to the EZB and mounted them with hot glue just over the robot wheel wells. The body is off so it looks a bit creepy.You know how a spider has 8 eyes on the front? The robot wheel base has what looks like 4 eyes on the front and the wide wheel stance makes it look like a creepy Tarantula! The sonars work great as they are further apart now and lower!
Right on! It seems like pictures may be in order, robot spiders are awesome!