robo rad
Canada
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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
So as I wait for the Live hack event, thought I would work on my robot wheel base. Found a perfect fit from a tool storage container, clear plastic. Now I can see all the cool lights shine through from the EZ controller and electronics at the bottom! So you see you do not need to spend great deal of money to build your robot body! I will use self tapping screws to put the main sections together so I can drive both robot versions around,still just a mock up prototype until I get all the balance adjustments good. Robot
Arms and shoulders will make this dude look mean!The other guy with same wheel ride....
I think I will just buy the whole Cylon body kit to save time instead of creating from scratch!....
Flash light Hack! I changed the L.E.D. eyes with the L.E.D.'s from a dollar store Flashlight, what a difference the eyes are super bright now and this thing just gives me the creeps now at almost 5 feet tall!
I am still thinking that my original idea to have the Terminator sitting in a creepy old fashion Wheel chair was the best idea, I think I will try to source one off Ebay and then add my own motors and electronics, add robot arms to terminator that move making it look like he is controlling the joystick on the arm rest.That would be so insanely Frightening to the Max!
Does anyone else second guess their project? Sometimes I am happy with the robot building progress then I start to think, Should I just tear it down and start over? Then I will just have a coffee and brainstorming on what else I can do to make it better,LOL! I am pretty happy with the Base wheel carrier and the Terminator is getting there,until I start adding all the chrome pipes for the rest of the skeleton with arms I won't know how good it will turn out. I really want it to look spooky and mean so once I move it to where all my power tools are next month hopefully the progress will be almost done.
Second guess? You bet! However I like to call it Research and Development or Prototyping. LOL.
You are not alone in second guessing your projects, I do that all the time to mine. I start to see different ways to do something or overthink it. I usually have more fun and learn more if I just keep pushing ahead when I don't change too much from my original idea.