Trying to find the optimum solution for a robot that uses all the pieces in the development kit.
I am leaning towards a Fork of Zowi / Bob / Otto, the little open source creative commons (supports commercial license) biped robot. It has 4 servo's on the legs and there are some forks that have servo's for arms. What it lacks is a decent brain as it is arduino based so it can only do basic moves so I think the EZB would add a lot of value.
I printed a Zowi off and it looks like it is fairly close to what is needed.
Logic is use the existing HDD servo's for legs (2 Servos for feet and 2 for legs). They fit perfectly into the Zowi legs.
Use the 2 full rotation servo's for arms and add the camera and distance sensor.
Looks like the only major change will be the chassis design so it can fit the top of the EZB V4 and create some arms but the legs are pretty good and fit servos and the battery holder fits one of my 2S lipos.
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these are great moves.i like these video's
Frank, fantastic design!
BTW, Oh My GOSH, does anyone else think Frank's JD Cubee looks like a "Batteries Not Included" robot? As a child of the 80's I loved that movie and the "little guy".
@JustinRatliff, Thanks for the compliment. Your photo made me think of adding a head and in keeping with my self-imposed requirement of only using EZ-Robot stock parts here is what I came up with:
This of course makes him pretty tall, getting away from the Cubee clone idea, and he getting so top heavy that I had to use a bit bigger feet. Its almost as big as JD.
I'm considering removing the unused shoulder servos to balance it out. the Dodecagon Body is already enpty
It would be nice if there were some "slim" EZ-bits extension cubes, just male to male connectors for close fitting servos
Regards, Frank
@JustinRatliff, Here is my current attempt at matching those "Batteries Not Included" robots
I used the dome from AdventureBot and added music. Was able to go back to smaller feet and it has good balance
and the video
Frank
I love it Frank! Huge improvement! I'm probably going to end up copy catting you in the future. I might even do a custom shell.
@JustinRatliff Thanks for the feedback.
Would you like me to make the project public?
Regards, Frank
QB is awesome, frank. Last year i watched Batteries Not Included! What a great movie. Your robot sure looks like them!
I tried to build the bot Frank (I sacrificed JD) but the Poor guy kept face palming on me as I don’t have your blocks for feet and servos are to small. (may have to print some if they don’t turn up soon).
If you look at dev bot the Servos are mounted horizontally versus vertically so they can twist allowing him to walk forward but not sure we can do this on the JD Robot version.