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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Bob was on the operation table today - new arms and a wrist (unfortunately his claw servo on his right arm gave out just before this video) but thats an easy fix next week. His wrist turns using a carbon fibre rod that runs down from the back of his elbow, the rotations are sweeet. We are still waiting on those darn treads...Thanks Richie for your help today.
wow you have done a good job and fast, that balance works great! I love robots built from scratch.
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Sweet.......... that is pretty awesome.
I love red eyed tree frogs. I also see you have Robosapien v1. That is the same torso that I used for my newest bot. Are you going to hook him up to the EZ-B?
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Hi Samantha, thanks for your kind thoughts and yes, Robosapien will get fitted out with an EZ_B eventually. Bob remains our main project for the time and we are keen to get that tank base attached to him (still waiting on delivery). Once we get him moving around effectively we can develop his speach capability and then incorporate infared or various communication systems to operate devices around the house. Once we climb those mountains we will re-think his design. My 14 year old son Austin has some great ideas but it all takes time. Cheers
Hi Hazbot,
Thanks for all the hype and it's awesome to have customers like you (and I get to see and play with other robots much like how I get to play with many types of RC cars as I do repairs and tune ups
Thought I'd drop in and have a look and boy you don't muck around. The wrists are awesome and looks like the new servos did the trick for BOB's arms. I read you did a gripper servo, They are only 2.5 kg and that's about the biggest servo that can be fixed in the gripper,without spending more money. I'm thinking of adding a small servo saver to the grippers (like the type on small RC cars). as there is a fine line between gripping an object hard enough and too hard (=burnt out servo) really needs a spring hence the servo saver. I'm going to start adding them to the grippers as just part of the gripper kits...a must have...
I think all claws and grippers should have one really. You would'nt have a model cars steering hooked up to a servo without a servo saver. (I also burnt out a servo on GRIPSTER...one of the new kits soon available from my store
"Richie's RC & Robotics") Anyway I'll replace that one next week for you no charge. BTW I got to see BOB in the real the other day and was really impressed. BOB is really " Built On Bits" Pretty amazing what you can do with just a few bucks down at Bunnings and some bits n pieces lying around in the shed. Ohh and of cause the trusty hot glue gun.
I will put some photos and maybe a video of GRIPSTER later today...
Ohhh and Wall-e is still with us, I just can't manage the work that is required to finish him at the moment.
Rich (Richie) "Richie's RC") P.S. We are adding a new gripper to the catalogue in the next few weeks and these ones are slightly larger and will hold any std servo. ( could hook up say a 20kg or 40kg OUCH if it bites you..