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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
Looking good, nice shine :-)
any videos yet?
Hey Ezang, no not yet,looks like snowing here today and big line ups at Hardware store or Walmart, i am short a few nuts and bolts for the arms,may need to wait for a better sunny day to go get parts.
Nothing like a shinny Cylon! I love those guys.
Ya dave I think they looked better than the newer CGI dracula models from 2003can't even talk! Did you see the end season 2 of lost in space New netflix version? I thought the way robot talked near end was the coolest,too bad no season 3 came EDIT---Oh my mistake, season 3 to start back up next summer!
Very easy track system from Vex,this is the extra hard track material good for outside mud ,snow or concrete. Can be made with 2 motors or high torque 4 motors.,thinking about building a high performance snow robot.longer than a Roomba so I can get a big load on top.
That hard track would make a cool tank :-)
Here is a small tank I made a while back - https://youtu.be/GYZ4oFgYKCA
A few cheap motors, a H-bridge motor controller etc...
EzAng
Did some testing with Cylon body minus the arms using roomba again,it does work pretty good as the body is light weight. The stability problem comes from stop and go abrupt movement, on the Irobot create web site they detail how to add an extra castor wheel on the vacuum bin so that tall robots have good stability on the roombas.Just need to buy a 6 dollar castor wheel from Canadian tire or WalMart.
A few years a go, before I met you robot guys, we though out an old iRobot vac - at that time I had no thought I could have re-worked it. :-(
You know, maybe you can cut out a square of light wood or plastic (to form a platform) to put over your roomba for stability - just an idea...
On my Mr. Metal, for stability, I used