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....
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Totally man, keep us posted!!! Your sense of humor always makes my day!!
Hi robo rad,
great combination - terminator and rumba
mask, lol
EzAng
Hey thanks EzAng, I am just waiting for the new enhanced brush head and compartment to arrive today or tomorrow.The web site at irobot is horrible, no help ,only info comes if you phone them directly.So It is still on the way. Will be nice to have because the Create 2 comes only with brush motors but no brushes,the vacuum is also there but needs the roller brush to pick up bigger particles of dirt.
So thought I would try Roomba again now on a full charge and at first when I was only using the control in ARC turning up the forward slider, It was still wanting to turn very slightly to the left so I checked the wheels and hard to tell if there was s\till dirt or hair wrapped around wheel axel,but it looked clean. So I tried again ,this time I pressed the spot clean on Arc, Let it clean a bit. Then I tried manual control again Forward, suddenly it was going perfectly straight like normal! I am thinking that the Roomba built in computer needed to re activate to control the left and right motors control encoding. Since the battery went so low last night I had to do a hard reset before it would start charging again(No Lights flash on top of Roomba buttons,no respond to clean button) Once the Roomba is alive on it's own, then the ARC remote controls also start working normal...Just my Theory,keep fingers crossed it does not happen again,always run Roomba with good battery charge. Hope these observations will help anyone doing the same thing adding weight on top of it and finding any similar glitches in Arc. AS for now ,Terminator Roomba is happy at it again doing a cleaning out there!
Just got the email , my enhanced roomba brush compartment upgrade is just shipped, supposed to be a re designed brush head better than original for 500,600,700 series Roomba.
Hopefully my Roomba cleaning brushes come in tomorrow,..In the mean time I am working on putting the Chrome arms back on the 5 foot Cylon in the corner,,with some servo and motor/hand updates . If it was really alive it would be cursing at me for neglecting it since little buddy Roomba took all my attention.
I tried adding all the different Joystick plug ins to work with My PS3 game pad, they all work but one worked the best, the other one I could only get the D buttons working and the Joystick would move way too fast,could not get it too slow down no matter what in configuration, the software joystick DJ added to Roomba demo ,you can download to run Roomba,worked really good but is only for touch pad or use mouse to control directions. The final joystick plug in was "Joystick direct input" Microsoft PC Driver...The only one that could change speeds with my PS3 physical game pad, just having a blast driving the Terminator Roomba around ,while watching on TV camera view. That is the keeper! Until I get some of these new depth sensor navigation stuff happening!
Until I buy a Realsense camera for 3d mapping, i am just going to have to add this Fake Camera effect on the Terminator Roomba camera .so when I remote view it on my screen and move robot around,it will give that actual movie effect. Also ,the EZ cam will also be there for movement tracking,face tracking,color/Object tracking.