My current EZ-Robot project is called "AnnaDroid".
(on my web site: https://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
DJ's Ez-B V4 Dalek
Nomad's Using Robosapien V2
I just got a few Elvis robots to work with. I am building an android woman first, might build Elvis next. Hope to see more pics and you add a face to your android.
Sfoy: San jose, Los gatos, Pleasanton, Saratoga, Cupertino, half moon bay, Pleasanton, Santa Cruz--um, might have left out one or two.
Mcs: good luck on Elvis! Lots of fun! If you take the boards out of 8 hitec 311 servos, it's real easy to use with EZ-B.
I have the procedure for converting the Elvis servos to standard servos on my web site:
https://www.robots-and-androids.com
thomas is that my hack i gave you on converting elvis servo's to standard servo's what i did i bought 50 ,you get a better price,and never know when a servo board comes in handy to make servo HACK
Yes, that is your hack. I just documented it. I will give you credit on the web page. Do you have a site I can link to?
not yet,will work on one once i get back from my vacation trip
How did you get a chatbot and EZ B to work together? I would like to do that too. Did Annadroid ever get some skin?