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....
Related Hardware EZ-B v4
So here I have the servo tracking feature in the Synthiam ARC camera panel set for tracking any sudden movements, will train it to recognize my face and remember me.
Wow am having a blast, a little harder to use basic Synthiam ARC ,but still all the movement panels,sensors,cameras all work together so seamlessly well ,even merging other projects all together into 1 has no problems just a bit limited until I renew my subscription later today,as I don't think there is anyway to run both my EZB controllers together with basic. Still very impressive what I can do now without any real knowledge of complicated programming languages .soon I will have the top of robot handled by EZ Tiny and then the bottom with roomba running on EZb4, many sensors and servos,motors all running in perfect harmony ,the documents provided by DJ are so well organized on the web site and help files in Arc! If I can do all this ,I can only imagine what all you real long time builders are doing with Synthiam now!:)
Looks like you're having a blast with your robot. Very cool. Nice work so far.
I understand how fun this can be and how great it feels once you get things moving. I am currently working on arms for my robot but haven't gotten to the wiring or mounting of the motors yet. Still stuck at sanding, painting and fitting. I really dislike sanding so it's hard getting up the ambition to move the project along. I can't wait to get them at the point you are at.
Do you still have the camera mounted in the head of the robot for tracking? I haven't worked on the camera for my robot for years. I was using the old first version camera and a young version of ARC (now ARC) and I got frustrated. I had y camera mounted in the head also but I couldn't get it to work smoothly or properly for movement tracking. DJ said at the time that I should mount it on the main robot that didn't move the camera when tracking. Before I tried it I moved on to other things and removed the camera. I'd like to give it a try again with this new generation camera and ARC. It would be interesting to see how it works for you if you mounted yours in a spot other then the head to control the head.
Hey Dave I found this Tiny snap camera that is wireless which can do 1080 P at 30 Frames per second,that I mounted on the nose of the face but not sure if it will work with EZb Tiny, may work with the Ezb4 on the bottom of robot,will try it out tonight, if not supported I do still have 2 EZ cams, 1 mounted at the bottom roomba to see dirt on the floor for roomba remote controlled cleaning. The other ez cam has too short cable to mount on face but your suggestion to put on non moving neck could work right next to the Tiny.
Hi robo rad, looks like your robot is coming alive :-)
EzAng
Nice. Love the movement and speed.