My current EZ-Robot project is called "AnnaDroid".
(on my web site: http://www.robots-and-androids.com/annidroid.html)
Anna will be a life-size humanoid / android (not the phone OS silly!) kind of 'bot.
She is being made from a face casting of my friend Annika Skywalker, and a modified Wowwee Alive Elvis Presley robot, and a plastic mannequin body.
I am using the ARC for her software.
Working: eyes blink "alive" random movements touch sensors jaw in sync with text-to-speech (used the analog in to read the voltage of the sound coming from the computer's headphone jack and then triggered a servo.) A large number of speech recognition Qs & As. face tracking and following with head and eyes. head nod head turn ALICE chatbot software. It's SOOO cool having Annidroid being able to answer ANY question!
Partially Working: Kinect person count Kinect x,y,z location of a person's head. Kinect voice location
Not yet Working: arms/hands/locomotion
Planned: hand grasping shoulder and elbow control embedding a camera in the Elvis' eye (right now the camera is on a hat!)
There are a few pictures here, but fully documentation and photos (lots and lots of them) are on my web site.
MORE TO COME!
Other robots from Synthiam community
Fxrtst's Introducing Alan
Toymaker's Introducing The Altair Ez:2 Robot
You can see by the prior picture that we have a long way to go with casting a mask!
Thomas,
What? No pitch for your Website?
Mel
Nice website !
Thomas, this is coming along nicely!
Mel
:)
That's very cool Thomas... now i know what you've been working on!
hi THOMAS your project looks good,doing the same with mine too found a great place to get eyes,silicone and a lot more i am adding to camera's one in each eye,but the proble using camera's in eyes,cant see the membranes like in the 3 photo you have up,but not worried about that,i order some small clear lens from edmund optics for $30 each,and in the skin adding to show emotions ,and capacitance touch sensors for real feel
i also bought wowwee elvis head,i dont know if using this one ,or the better one off ebay ,cheaper then ELVIS head and super easy to modify
here is the link
android robotic head
Thanks DJ. I am currently working on 3 different androids: Annidroid, Melvis, and Robot Betty9. A lot of the details are on my web site. I am very happy with my EZ-B. I am helping my daughter (age 6) to build her own converted toy robot. I will post photos when I have a minute. I"m doing a video blog on it. Just need more time to clean up and upload the videos. Work keeps getting in the way. LOL!
Thanks Fred. What camera are you using inside the robot's eyes? I bought a endoscope camera and it fit inside the eyes, but it was high magnification and so, I am again looking for another camera for inside the eyes. Also had a problem with ELvis's eyelashes. they stopped face detection!
PS. the photo you see as my avatar, is actually Melvis. I've taken your suggestion Fred and added servo controls to all of Elvis's motors/trim pots. Works REAL nicely with EZ-B.
Got the neck tilt on Annidroid working. I finally gave up on getting the worm gears and encoders to work right, and strapped in a gigantic scale servo: HT 805MG.
With Servos and DJ's EZ-B, I've made more progress on my robots in the last 2 months than in the last 2 years. OF course it helps that I am now working close to the house instead of driving 2 hours or so each way to work.