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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
To anyone building a taller robot body on the Roomba. I just noticed in my testing here ,the roomba will sometimes do a crazy fast 360 spin when it gets trapped in a corner. So when it did this in my kitchen, it got the serial cable caught on a lower drawer handle and pulled away the cable from back of body that only had tape and a spot of hot glue keeping it nicely tucked in,this is also where the USB connected to the EZ Tiny wire connection. So if I was not watching this on camera(so hard to believe what I saw!LOL!) this could have ended badly with wires possibly shorting out. I am now going to build a shield over this area to prevent that from ever happening again. The robot was so powerful it actually pulled out the kitchen drawer with cable hooked around handle!xD
Did some cleaning with isopropyl alcohol on roomba to get excess splatters of hot glue off, looks shiny and new again...
Then I am going to add nuts and bolts to make the neck stronger on the cover plate ,hot glue is only for mock up testing,all running good so now to make it strong and permanent,also a new shield over electronics and cable...I got big buddy media bot with a new head to install here, going to run with EZb4 and 8 channel relay board timed accurately to get experimental walking and dancing of course!
that looks like alot of fun to do .
Okay ...this is mind-blowing now , I simply added a few personality scripts, camera learning script and camera color red locating and just forgot about the Termonator Roomba bot,left it standing in the dark living room, was still connected with EZ Tiny and cam. As the sun started giving light, the robot startled me ,as it came alive by itself. I guess it was searching for red,and trying to learn shape in memory but the weird thing is I never programmed any new script on how to move or talk. It started pulling words out of the sound board like Fuk you Asshole and I am a learning computer ,T2 sound files I have ,but it should not have done that,only the camera auto look for red could work But Not Talking! Freaked me out. DJ is a genius ,these plug in scripts make the robot possessed!xD
This was the last few minutes just after it cam "Alive" as the sun came up...i grabbed my camera but missed where it started Talking for no reason,was not supposed to....This was truly weird but wild, gonna have more Fun if DJ's Synthiam Plug in scripts can Mimic A.I. !!..
I was not controlling it with Joystick, just started moving like that by itself, A camera tracking feature of course if left on. But was not moving at all for an hour in dark room.Was shocked. ....If the voice came on and said "Please clean up these damned Batteries and empty Bottles, I cannot get through..." Then I would be just leaving the house and never coming back Ha ha! The sun only came out briefly,then this terrible wind started howling,with trees waving violently, I live next to Lake Ontario and I could start to hear waves crashing like never before, Weird energy this morning! Something to do with those Strange Northern lights people were observing last few nights? Anyone ever see Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive or "Trucks" ?Aha ha! So in further checking of what caused my Terminator to come on by itself this morning.....Seems that when I merged some of my 2 year old Terminator files from old ARC into my newer Roomba ARC program....I forgot how sophisticated my code was, It was made for a large Outdoor 5 foot Tall terminator I had at the cottage. It had a High powered automatic Machine gun Rifle (BB Gun) that could locate any target on it's own and peg it with 300 rounds of BB ammo. I had last set it up to search for red objects on the Lawn and Aim at the target, firing the gun,then randomly speaking a Terminator 1 Liner from my sound waves of T movies. After I merged that old Terminator Program I just figured the code was too outdated to work anymore....Apparently not,still works great but it merged some how with the Roomba Movement Panel (again DJ is a Genius and who ever helped on that Plug in for camera script) So that is why the voices came on too I had made that Camera script to do all these seek and destroy functions with the talking, Forgot I still had all that in there! How it merged perfectly with Roomba movement panel, More DJ magic I guess....In conclusion my house is not haunted,no Demons possessed Terminator Roomba and I Duped my own self Ha ha!
Well Purolator courier is actually working today and they emailed me my brush is on the delivery truck, doubt if it will show up but my day ruined again waiting for a lousy Roomba "Enhanced brush and compartment" While I'm waiting I thought I would try the Bixby vision on my Samsung Phone as I am thinking it may be similar to the Yolo plug in on Arc? This is what I want for my Larger Cylon Robot but better as, this Bixby vision works sometimes but sometimes not accurate to identify camera objects in real time video mode. I do want to keep this Google voice I modified on my phone for the Cylon.