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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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#481  

Thanks Ezang, after DJ helped me solve a connection issue with the Tiny controller, I was supposed to go to bed after but Just had the Urge to keep putting the Terminator parts back together,had to make a custom plastic case for the tiny controller where it connects to Serial cable and it is see through so all the lights shine through it nicely. Seems stable and can move really fast when I turn up the movement slider. All the regular clean and docking commands work right from computer but I did notice after docking I cant Restart it from the computer commands. Had to take it off the battery Dock first. I do know there is a wake up command and a connection on the roomba serial connector,need to get that going. Later today,since that would be annoying if I can't remote wake it.I can't test if all the Roomba bumper sensors work while cleaning because it is 6 in the morning,but later on. Need coffee now ,LOL!

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#482  

lol, when you get that urge, forget sleep, coffee time!

I know you succeed - keep me up to date with your progress.

thanks , EzAng

#483  

Oh for sure Ezang,you know what it is like when you start brainstorming with all these cool idea you want to add to the robot. Forget sleep,lots of coffee! In my testing of Regular cleaning mode,I started to notice one of the sensors kept activating causing the robot to only travel a short distance and keep turning but only on automatic cleaning. I realized the Head is tilting too far back and not in the Center.Causing one of the sensor to keep tripping.Not sure which sensor on the bot,there are so many when you look on bottom. I just thought more simple to place head straight up and directly in the center on top of main drive wheels,best balance! The head is about 8 pounds so ya what a big difference,now so much faster and no more sensor glitches.Will clean whole house every room and after 1 hour 15 minutes returns to recharge by itself. still cant wake it up when charging,need to solder that extra wire for waking up from PC or internet.The EZ cam works but less performance on the Tiny,possibly wifi antenna too small on Tiny ...cam connection?I can drive it around on my TV but not as smooth as the EZBv4. The camera is pointing up to track objects,colors,sudden movements for security all working good though.Even Face tracking works. I want to put a red ball and watch Terminator-Roomba chase after it, so now this is all new training a new type of robot to add these scripts, Looks like no sleep again tonight,LOL! Having too much fun to stop,you guys no what it is like,friends and Family think we are nuts getting obsessed with it!

#484  

So anyone worried about using the old Ez camera on the Tiny IO, try using it with WiFi Client mode instead of the default mode. The camera response smoothness is so much better when using your home WiFi Router!

#485  

He used to be ought to wipe Sarah Connor, now he is on a quest to wipe the floor...thats the story of my life in a nutshell!!:D

I am loving it!! Gotta do something to my Roomba too!!

#486  

Oh yeah it sure is an easy platform to use with Arc, I am finding everything still works the same with minor differences in either Blockly or EZ scripting,having a blast ,making Terminator Roomba do stuff like the movement tracking, when someone comes through the front door,Terminator sitting there waiting like a big bad dog ready to attack any movements coming through door,then making it scream or swear while running full speed at the movement coming in! (A friend came to see what I was doing with Roomba) Watching it chase a colored ball is just freakin funny as hell,too. There is so much that can be done and now we have the new realsense Plugin,DJ working on,will be fun as well.

#487  

So the Roomba Terminator skull went for more surgery today, wanted to have the brain L.E.D.'s to run off the EZ Tiny 3.3 volts data pins so I can randomly have them scripted to come on when ever the Voice comes on,Now to put it all back together again and then test it on the Floor,the scripts are fairly easy to do,but why does the goto loops not work in Blockly? LOL just means I need to do more typing in EZ scripting,all the Goto Looping still works in there.

#488   — Edited

So this is my Final vid today. I sure got a Lot done, Nice big test ,vacuums the house,still got to add my 2 Sonar sensors to help it avoid tight areas getting stuck as ,the head is taller. I think my Enhanced Roller brush compartment comes on Monday,I hope! Supposed to be able to vacuum more fine dust and pick up particles/easy to clean brush after.

I do also need to do the speaker hack to get louder voice on an amplified speaker,Tiny speaker is just too tiny to hear it well,over the vacuum sound.