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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
Interesting, I found out great info on testing Terminator/Roomba this morning,ran for about an hour and 15 minutes and never got stuck anymore. I noticed that if it tries to go under chair but can't fit because of Tall Robot head, The wheels will wait for about 3 seconds trying to go forward but will then stop ,reverse,do a 180 degree move and continue vacuuming else where! so I did not need to ever get up but watch what it see from EZ camera on my big screen TV,Fun to relax with a coffee and just watch Cam view,like you are low down viewing like a what a cat would see. of course if it did ever get stuck like when it has edge detect on stairs,that is the only time it will ask for help so it wont fall over stairs.Really cool sensors it has! I want to add 1 sonar to front anyway even though it does not really need it now. I want it to not bump into those chairs anymore.Place sonar beside EZ camera at neck area. Surprised the extra weight of Terminator does not put any strain on motors and has the same battery run time from Irobot LI Ion battery! Also the EZB Tiny running on that battery! I do need to find a way to disconnect USB connection on Roomba to EZB since yes the charging dock puts out 22 volts on charging. This connection must disconnect EZB Tiny before it does battery Low seeking automatic docking sequences. That is if I set any date/Time schedule to clean when I am not home,Then EZB should not be on when it does finish cleaning and dock. I do have a relay board I can try along with a Google Home app that can turn off or on a wall charger. I could just turn off the wall charger just before Roomba tries docking with battery Dock station. I also found the Pin connection diagram that is hard to find so I can locate the Wake up pin for roomba on charging dock.
web Link....Pin web page roomba header pins on Cable. Link above shows pin 5 and 6 as BRC pins and I think that could be what takes Roomba off sleep when docked,not sure though I need to find that info again on the web.
How many volts are you putting in the ezb? You could use a voltage reducer.
Ah yes great answer Proteusy! In the beginning of Roomba that was my idea I had this great Voltage reducer from DF Robot a small circuit board that could output 5 volts--5 amps I think that was enough for EZB Tiny. Problem came when I did not watch the Polarity on the Voltage regulator input and my 12 volt battery I was using fried something on the voltage regulator...Tried to buy another from Robotshop canada but they are so popular always on back order. Thanks for reminding me,I will see if I can source one from a different web store!
I am trying out Blue stacks (run Google play mobile apps on Windows 10) As they added some performance enhancements even a separate disc cleanup utility when you are running it on Windows like on a mini pc such as my Latte panda with 60 gig internal storage.want to keep it at least 50 percent Free all the time.Runs better than it did last year! I prefer to use the mobile Google voices,they are free and so clear to understand even when adding robot distortion effects(I have a cool guitar effects peddle all in one with many wild effects to add on the fly with Google voices).
Spent about 2 hours looking for good MP3 sound files and then merging my 2 scripts together to make 1 super script but they say you should not have the serial cable connected for long periods on your PC USB port. The Roomba will go to Low power mode and not turn on until you do manual hard reset. It will still follow your script commands from computer and EZB! Even on Low power but not running too good, seems very sick on such low power, Just like it caught that whacky Flu bug going around....I also did see some hair caught in the 1 side wheel,likely causing Friction,needs to be taken out and cleaned tomorrow. Then I can take it's Face mask off,Ha!
OMG!!!! The Terminator having to wear a mask!!! This is the best clip ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just blew coffee thru my nose!!!
Ha ha,Thanks Mickey! Glad I have 1 fan out there, oh and Nomad is always cool too,He built me a printed Dalek, wait 'til you see what I do with that one on youtube, will be hilarious!xD