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
Tony1952's My Rolly Boxbot
Klaatu's 1 M Hexapod (Autonomous Insect)
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:
Http://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?