robotmaker
Looking to make a poost for this for a long time and you dont have to tell if you dont want too
ROBOTMAKER i started at age 5 makig a cardboard box robot.then i fix my very first radio at age 7
now on robots building ,i guess i started after i got out of college using a 6800 processor from a kit i bought,i still have the box with board and DOS software,i forgot the name i think machine basic ,super slow and only had a speaker and round based robot with 5 decks i still use it for my sensor testing
Then i started working at a big A/C company first in RD dept then latter on my own in-house tester design lab ,where i learned about sensor tesing.
Then i bought another robot look great using another processor,forgot the type and with help of the one of the guys in the programming dept he help me made the software.
then a made one using a Z80 and next years i was using boe-bot by parallax and then join a AI robot building forum
(sorry DJ said i cant poost info on it) i think some ideas came from it like the joke script witch is a great add -on to EZB
I also made many many different designs of a home base finder and autocharge
i think i made over 20 robots (cant also post photos unless using ezb)
then my favorate board EZBN with i have about 77 robots and counting and more then half to hack well thats my story
That's awesome! We are all from the same mold i think....robots are in our blood!
My wife bought me a t-shirt last year with a picture of a robot and the phrase "all my friends are metal". She knows me well
Alan
I made my first robot... LAST NIGHT!
It was nothing special, two modified servos connected to a quickly made meccano-based frame, but it worked! Drove it around, chased the cat, all the usual stuff.
@robotmaker:
Brussels national airport is 110 Km, or 1:20 drive
Ostend regional airport is 25Km, or 30min drive
Great Bill hope to see you build more of robots soon.
ALAN great t-shirt
I made my first robot when I was 5. I made it from large sewing spools and rubber bands. The next one when I was around 12-13. It was made from dryer hoses and all kinds of wood and stuff. The next one I built was a Hero1 with arm. After that, David Hieserman's Rodney. At that point I wasn't satisfied with the current A.I. in robots or computers. So, I skipped about 20 years and started back about 8 years ago working with the Basic Stamp. I was disappointed again. It worked, but it was really slow when you put more stuff on it. After that, I discovered the Arduino. It was Heaven compared to the others. After two Arduino robots I found the EZB. The EZB was a million times better and faster and more Simple. So that is that I have done.
Oops! I forgot a whole section. After the Arduino , I built a LEAF robot. It had 17 emotions and it worked well. I was very pleased with Leaf. After Leaf I worked with the Roomba. After about 4 roombas, I bought an iCreate. It was much easier to work with. THEN, I found the EZB and it was Love at first sight! Easier, Faster, so I could do less head scratching and more working with the Robot. After EZB, I got a Qbo EVO PRO. It has put me back into the dark ages and I am trying to learn ROS, more C, Python. It really just sits there most of the time like the RB-5X and Hero1 units that I purchased so many years ago. I invested my whole life saving into it. BAD descision. Out of ALL my robots, my two Favorites are the LEAF and the EZB. My favorite Bought Units where the Novag by Gavon which played chess with me and had a z-80 based cpu. But my favorite and I don't own one, is the B9. Forgive my misspelled words. I have Always had a passion for Robots.
I really can't count the number of robots that I have built in my life, but that is the Just of it.
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Waw, MovieMaker, you've been pretty busy! I read a lot about the LEAF and was thinking of starting with that also. Until I met EZ_B... ROS is quite interesting too. I might do some research on that later on. Keep it coming....
I was born in 1961. Built my first robot when I was 14. I had bought a book called "Build Your Own Working Robot" by David L. Heiserman. Robot's name was Buster. Unfortunately, I used him for spare parts. Did not start tinkering with robots again until about 2006. I guess you could say Buster lives on because some of his parts are now being used in the new robot. One item that I am using on my other robot Magnus has been waiting about 37 years to be installed in a robot!
Magnus is on hold for now. I decided to build a smaller robot for testing systems and controls. What I learn will be incorporated into Magnus.
One thing that happened with the first robot was; one night when my father was walking through the house without the lights on, he tripped an fell on top of Buster. He had multiple cuts on his arms and stomach. He didn't think it funny at the time but, later on he got a kick out of telling the story of how he was attacked in the dark by my robot!
Now I am officially addicted to anything and everything robot related