This is a challenge issued by friends and family. The goal here is to make a robot that can bring beverages from another area to wherever the people are , allow the person to get their drink , then leave. It does not need to be fully autonomous , even remote control is acceptable. It does not need to grab them from the fridge, preloaded beverages are acceptable. This is Ez Robot though, I believe we could do better than that! Well anyways to start the project off I am using a roomba base. I picked up a stainless steel trash can last night as a outside casing. I will show you the rest as we go
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Ok update : I cut up a ps2 mouse and after testing with a meter I found that the pin I needed to have a wire soldered to was not connected to a wire . So I had to cut it up and after a few min I was able to get to the pins inside. I then soldered two jumper wires.
Ok when trying to do the initial connection the Roomba powered off and couldn't get it back on. I checked the battery and had 15.04 volts and the charger was 22 volts. After research I found the 15 volts means the battery is dead. So apparently robotdoc was very right about the battery draining thing. I reset the battery charger by holding the power button down 30 seconds and now it's charging again. I will continue tommorow.
Full charge should be 17+ volts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5OWLAMniWo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Unedited video of the first movements. I did sit the body onto to add weight and the roomba moved effortlessly like it wasn't there. I have a couple things that must be done at some point. A relay on the power wire , a relay to trigger the power button press to activate roomba so it can connect. Those can be added later when wiring is ran. I'm mostly concerned that I cannot trigger the dock feature. I must have "disable sensors" checked to use the Movement Panel but I believe this is causing me not to be able to use the autodock feature.
-Showing manual demonstration of how the Roomba needs to dock.
Ok here Im MANUALLY demonstrating what it should do if autodocking was working. I later figured out that if i press clean first it can automatically find the home base. SO that being said this video is not very important.
Manually getting the roomba to dock from three different directions, this is not command based , its manual control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRBsTIv6bI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Roomba first auto dock , Who wants a treat !? Whos a good Roomba? I got some volts for ya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifJbZP5HAY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
first success with auto docking next i will make sure i can repeat the success over and over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7O2bADOc4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Repeated auto dock and initialization without human help. Very happy. Now I just need to figure out what the script commands are.
Josh, do you have any info on when the next makerfaire will be ....and where?