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This is the start of my BIG project...the name "BIGMACK" was used because an E-MAC housing is used for the head , the name may not stay but it is here for now.
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Not really big and not really small, plenty of room in there for everything one might need.
I like it
Check this out...
It is mounted on a hard drive motor as the bearing ( very small and tight bearing by the way ) and I will control it with a servo and linkage.
I'd like to use the cd+g player to display a 790 type character ( 790 from the TV show LEXX ) something like the picture below, I may try and remove the cd+g player and install a computer CD/DVD player instead ( it would make thing easier for what I want ).
This character is made with CRAZY TALK PRO and will lip-sync text that is inserted into a timeline within the program. The character is also animated while sitting idle and talking.
My intention is to have the bot speak its status and such.
I also have a program called ULTRA HAL which I may also use.
I've removed the front idler wheels to shorten up the length, these are there to push the drive wheels down when you approach a rise on the ground surface and to prevent a tip over when going down a steep grade ( they are not needed for my robotic purposes ) but after removing them I had to do some suspension adjusting.
I've also removed the electric brakes ( pretty neat actually but not needed ).
I tested the base with a SabreTooth 2x60 and it works fantastic, I blasted around my back yard full bore doing donuts, full forward to full reverse with no problems at all.
From a stand still to full power it will spin it's wheels and the cooling fan on the SabreTooth kicks in for about 5-10 secounds if that. I'm really impressed.
Here's a few pics.
The pics above are before idler wheel removal
This one is the parts pulled from the brake.
This is after the idler removal.
SabreTooth 2x60
Here is BIGMACK with a few more changes,
His head is now able to pan back and forth with a single servo at the rear, I was going to bore a hole at the back for the corrugated wire sleeve but I think I'm going to leave it the way it is.
The Aspire lap top is now inside with video in and out capability.
So far I only have the EZ-B connected to the lap top ( Brain )
I'm running Ultra Hal 6 ( AI assistant program ) with ARC in the background, I also use Ultra VNC which is a very easy client/server program to access BIGMACK from any where that I want, I can program EZ-B, chat with BIGMACK ( Hal6 ) and also see what BIGMACK sees on his head cam.
The Head cam is also accessible by EZ-B for face recon etc.
And also the Karaoke machine is unaltered and fully functional if someone wants to sing along with BIGMACK!
Next I'll be merging the body to the base WAHOO.....
What's the shipping price to
Victoria, B.C. Canada
V8Z-1J7