This is Bob, our 3 ft tall house robot using the Ez-Robot kit and leftovers from plastering angle beads (lengths of perferated coated- right angle tin use to finish edges of plasterboard).
The angle beads are super cheap, can be cut to any length and can be easily riveted together. The big plus is the material is super light but strong. Bobs head comprises of 2 X 1.25 ltr plastic bottles. We are soon to retrofit Bob with Electric drill motors so he can venture up the driveway and down the street.
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Can't wait to see BOB again after he has been renewed. Please post stills also.
thanks,
Mel
No worries MM. a Photo session is on the cards in the next few days -
Bob un- plugged - At the moment he looks more like a notebook holder with arms but he will improve with covers and some visual effects on the monitor.
This robot is constantly morphing! your robot is an example of rapid and continuous.
Fantastic!
Bravo! Way to go there, Hazbot. Looks good.
:D
Wow you got it already.
We got it by chance through a great deal from a store in our area. Once I knew you could fit a ssd I grabbed it. Robotmakers suggestion of running XP is one I'm looking at as an OS instead of Windows 7 but I need more research on that. One thing that concerned me initially with this project is the robot KEEPS GETTING BIGGER. Bob has grown nearly 3 times his original size. This is partly due to the fact that he now accommodates a 10 inch netbook, and an external speaker (with inbuilt amplifier). As far as house-bots go I think he's about where its at for size. He still gets through doors easily. He now reminds me of the Hue, Due and Lewy robots of the classic scifi "Silent Running" except they were bi-peds.
Bob still gets around on those widened tank treads but they are now quite noisy with the extra weight (still powerful). I'm seeing Richie at his workshop next week to come up with a good base tread design. Richie has some new really robust thick and solid treads to experiment with on a base running continuous servo's. One of the design criteria is Plug and play - see how we go.