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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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I can't even see where the repair was. Nice stuff!
was going through my boxes of robot parts and when I found the rest of my Cylon chrome body parts,as I moved 3 times during the summer and Fall. I just can't resist putting it back together on top of my Roomba Irobot Create 2. So the next step is to first find out which wires on the Roomba serial to USB cable have the 5 volts or 17 volts that I could share with all the EZB and electronics.there is a header port directly on the USB cable to sponge power from.It's cool to rediscover old love and fascination. This is a neat build. I was really enjoying watch you work on it. Good to see it again.
Thanks Dave once I get the bug for building these,I go all day and then possibly 4 hours sleep ,get right back to building and testing.
Nice to have you back!!
Thanks Mackey, I did a test run to see how the default Roomba cleaning could handle the 3 foot body on top. Did go great but the problem spots are under chairs or couch. Next I need to add the ultrasonic sonar to the top of 3 foot body to avoid chairs and couch. The 3 foot body is just a bucket from Walmart.
I may ditch the idea of using an acid battery on the bottom and just power the Ezb And Latte panda from the Roomba usb cable ,as it is capable with 15-20 volts there. Not going to do 5 feet high as I want it to boot around at normal roomba speeds. There is more chrome parts to still mount on
The Roomba USB cable cannot support the constant current of the Latte Panda and EZB, without any servos at all your looking at 5-6 amps draw under use at 5+ volts, you can use a buck converter to regulate the voltage and then it draws 10-20 percent more due to heat loss and inefficiency of the voltage regulation of a cheap converter.