Hello all It's been a while since I posted, been busy catching up on back orders for IKON so that took up most of my time.
I finished Doombot's skeleton/frame and I took him apart to make molds so I can reproduce the parts in aluminum and carbon fiber and kevlar. Its gonna be one mean deadly machine.
Anyway in the meantime I created Dirgebot, a smaller, less menacing and simpler to program (less moving parts) machine that's somewhat kid-friendly (for me). I wanted something my kid can play with (she wont even go in the room where Doom was parked).
Anyhoo here is the progress. Depending on how this proto goes I may market this model as a complete, not a kit, but something that can be used out of the box with no guesswork. I'm looking for an ARC programmer who can work with me, in exchange for stake in the future company. I recently established Bertone Industries, LLC and I have access to a warehouse and it will be manufactured here in the US using rotocasting techniques. Please contact me if interested here: [email protected]. Thanks guys!
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This still uses the V3 board and a webcam, alongside the W3 Iconia mounted on its chest. I will upgrade soon. Please be nice to us dinosaurs! haha
He stands at 3' 4" currently.
Testing the arm
Head armature
Sketching the head
Chestplate attached
Nearly finished sculpt. I'm gonna make a tutorial for making molds and casting fiberglass panels. This head is gonna be produced in fiberglass, alongside the rest of the robot when the sculpting is done. Hope you all like it.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Jstarne1's Meet Squeegee , The Flooring Mopping Robot ,...
Kashyyyk's Star Wars D-O Droid
@DJ Sures I currently have a Creality Ender 3 Neo...I love tinkering and i love that it has a lot of aftermarket upgrades available.
I contacted support about my old account. I'm looking forward to posting my progress again! Thank you.
RE: the "red" parts...I'm incorporating more color into my works...of course, the robots I work with at my job is usually yellow, red or blue, mixed with aluminum parts...that's my aesthetic LOL
Hey again @Doombot. That robot arm looks very interesting. Looks like it has many places that will twist and turn. I'm hoping you will post more info about it with some video of it moving around.
Not many of us "old timers" still hanging around regularly. Just me and @Nomad mostly. A few of the others pop in from time to time lIke @HarrBall. It's always good when they post. The "Old" days were fun with us all working togather to learn this platform, help each other out and build our robots. I really miss that energy. It's hard to believe I've been on this forum for over 12 years now and I have checked in almost every day. LOL! When I started I didn't even know how to move a servo.
Glad you're back! I'm looki g forward to seeing what comes out of your skill and imagination.
I am still around too. Not posting much (probably at all for the past year). Life got in the way, but I am still paying my ARC subscription just to help support and eventually I will get back into the robots.
Awe, that's nice of you @Alan! Thank you so much
Hopefully, we'll see you get back into robots soon.
@Dave, you are so right about the old days compared to today. It's strange to see how the internet has changed-now everyone is addicted to short video clips of people yelling and dancing on TikTok. The days of conversing and working together belong in the history books! I also think that having such a vast support section with user manuals for absolutely everything has made 99.9% of users self-sufficient, except for the odd users who don't want to put any effort into learning. With the manuals, I suspect people keep to themselves more these days.
@DJ You are so right both about people wanting videos these days, and how good the manuals have become. In the early days of EZ-Robot, my chief complaint was that all of the documentation was via video demonstration and I wanted manuals. Now that I have them, that part of my brain is super happy, but I do miss some of the long conversations and help we all provided each other. It also speaks to the maturity of the product, though. We don't need each other's help as much since we don't need to invent our own integrations and workarounds. In most cases, the product just does what it is supposed to do.
@Alan! There you are! Good to hear from you again. Like The Stranger (the narrator) in the movie The Big Lebowski played by Sam Elliot said: "Somehow that comforts me". LOL!
@Dave S Part of my burnout was trying to create big servos from window motors...the whole using pots for position tracking was very clunky and sloppy. Ive seen a lot of videos of people using hacked servo boards with IBT-2 H bridges...but what reignited my interest is the availability of higher power servos available on Amazon...they're a lot cheaper now too.
As for the new torso I'm designing...yes this arm has a lot of degrees of freedom...6 servos driving the hand, 3 servos for the wrist, 1 big servo for the elbow, 1 servo for the bicep rotation...I used the InMoov's shoulder worm gear (as Ryan suggested aeons ago) and I'm currently designing a clavicle for moving the arm up and down...I'm waiting to get my old account re instated so I can start a new thread documenting the build. I'll post a drawing of the torso when I get to my home computer.
@Alan Nice to hear from you again brother. Hopefully we can still collaborate in the future.
@DJ awesome updates on ARC man. I'm highly interested in the AI integration...I'm definitely gonna subscribe and I can't wait to see where my project goes! My main goal here is to create a companion robot that can hold conversations. Also, Ryan still around? Is that his InMoov you guys are using? The bartender?
Here's a partial sketch. It's gonna have an outer skin of soft foam.