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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
Ya so I noticed an issue with the Google Nest Mini speaker using the Bluetooth,it runs better with just Wi-Fi but when I try to use it as a bluetooth speaker with my PC sending over the voice or sounds,Every once in a while it will cut in and out. It could be just the battery not strong enough to power it. I tested in my car. I noticed that if I set voice loud with bass that speaker will even cut out and die from cigarette lighter to USB power input. Is this the reason many of you guys use the Amazon dot speaker? Uses less Amps to run mobile? I may just look for a dedicated Audio bluetooth bass speaker that can be used outside on battery power....I am almost ready to mount the cylon back on the wheel base.I also have the pipe extensions for arms but not going to install those yet until everything else is lined up,like where exactly I need to mount shoulder bells,need to test arm servo movements first so they have enough clearance to move freely.-Lots of work to do before spring hits!:) Edit----I guess for now the easiest way is to just use the audio out on the EZB4 or the Latte Panda audio out but the old loud speaker I was using has static and crackle sounds everytime the line in cable wiggles, I need to buy some contact cleaner as that is what I sometimes use to clean the Jac on electric guitars to stop static.
I saw on the news yesterday a new facial recognition technology getting use with all the police forces, I guess every cop with a body cam or dash cam can scan a face and the A.I. will find really quickly every web site every photo ever uploaded and all kinds of personal info with 98% accuracy. Even if you cover your face with your hand half way it will still work! Imagine if I could get that on my robot! every person that visit my cottage would be intercepted and instantly be identified as harmless friend or a criminal attempting to rob me in which case the robot would set off alarm and go defensive,LOL!
A big part of robot building is just organizing where you want to attach your circuit boards and get it to be cosmetically pleasing if the boards have cool Flashing L.E.D.'s and to line everything up nicely. So here I got my Latte Panda attached where I want so far and the mini amp/speaker all hooked up and working. Running Mobile ARC with my Android emulator program in win10 so I can still use the old Terminator Google voice I had before. I also have Windows ARC for all the actual script writing and the Cereproc Cylon voice I bought can then be used too,to continue now with a
ll the rest of the circuits and wiring also the head is off for servicing and more wiring of servo.....I did some repairs on the helmet today and buffed out some scratches as I had dropped it a few times, I made a bracket mount for the 7" Latte Panda screen,which is removed easy if needed. Getting there,Once I get the shoulders and arms with the chrome pieces securely attached,it will make a big difference, I still need a Chrome utility belt though....I can't wait to see what it looks like out in the sunshine, all that chrome will be blinding! It would be funny to let it rip around in a shopping mall, Do they still exist? we don't have any around
So I got the EZB under the helmet sitting on the neck compartment,attached EZB camera to Cylon mouth piece. I got rid of the neck servo because I have a much better high torque Gear box motor with low RPM to move the head left and right to be used with my old 6 volt motor controller and EZB can use head tracking with the camera.This is going to be cool!
Send him to the mall and have him shoot people!!! ( with a BB gun of course!!)
Mickey BB guns are dangerous maybe a paint gun.
Actually no more BB guns, I have just installed the upgraded arms and I have the dual star L.E.D.'s that are so bright 3 watts ,that you cant look directly at them.I am going to add 1 of each to the hand palms and when he rotates either wrist it will blast out gun Flashes. I have not decided which sound effect to use with the loud speaker,Either regular UZI machine guns or the classic Cylon Laser blasts. The mall would be funny but I bet they would call in a terrorist alert. I am thinking more about the summer Comicon convention where everyone goes dressed up like starwars characters or Xmen. They would likely let my Bot walk around in there!