Or FIIFAH (feef a or FIFA if you prefer) for short.
Made from Styrofoam body and EZ Complete.
Current Features:
Camera Controls for Tracking fun.
Ultra Sonic Ping Radar
Movement Controls
Modified servo Movement Panel
Arm Movement
Camera Tilt and Pan
Keyboard Controls for Camera Positioning (adws) (@Rich Finally got it. Thanks a lot for the help)
- Center Camera (q)
- Camera Snap Center (e)
Centers Camera on Key Press and Reuturns it
to it's Previous Position on Key Release
Personality Generator for calling random scripts (One of my favorites)
Script Manager
Reset Servos
The Keyboard Camera Control scripts
Panic (an action/pose)
Flex1 (an action/pose)
Flex2 (an action/pose)
Chop Chop Chop (an action/pose)
More to come!
Front View
Birds Eye
A better look at the Wires and Wheels: Wheels are hot glued in place. I intentionally wrapped the wires around the front to give it an industrial cyberpunk look. Oops, I guess the kids are calling it steampunk now, my bad.
Right Side Profile: The arm servos are pressure fit for re-usability.
Close Up of Camera setup: Tilt is hot glued to Pan and Pan is hot glued to body. Camera is velcro fastened for re-usability.
Rear View: Using a caster from Home Depot hot glued to under carriage (Smallest one they had, I would have liked a slightly smaller ball type caster.)
Close up of the EZ and Batteries
It ain't pretty and it has no arms but it moves and intimidates the dog so it's time well spent. Arms are just a matter of decision making at this point.
UPDATE: 2013-06-15
I added the Ultra Sonic ping sensor to my EZ Robot. No custom scripts involving the radar yet. As you'll see, I need to make some adjustments. I added some temporary arms to help show off the actions.
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Immediate Plans:
Going to mess with camera tracking options. I'd like to get those dialed in.
Attach some arms
Twitter.
Some RSS feeds.
After That:
Some more action/poses.
Find a better 3rd wheel for the back.
Maybe some paint?
If you have any Comments, Questions or Suggestions, there's always someone here you can turn to so, don't bother me.
JUST KIDDING! I welcome, appreciate and love, all CQ&S. I'd love to hear what all of you think.
-Anton
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I really enjoy the EZ platform. It's made learning robotics very rewarding. It's nice to, as you said, Get it together and get it doing stuff. For me the engineering is where I'm least experienced.
I pondered on it Saturday and put it together on Sunday. It probably took about an hour and a half total to put all together. I used a $10 dremel from BigLots to route out the styrofoam. And hot glued the other parts on/in. I didn't get to do any scripting till yesterday. But I had been struggling with the Keyboard controls with the last bot so when I went to re write them it sort of just clicked. I was over-complicating things. Then I put together the poses/actions for the Personality Generator.
I could go on for hours. But I won't. It's safe to say that I'm having fun
You guys (and a couple others) are like benchmarks for me. I read your posts and think to myself, "That's where I want to be." You aspire me to aim high. I just wish I had more time so I could get past these first few inches. I've still yet to really tap into the power of ezb. I know it's potential, I just need time to get smart enough.
It may not be pretty, as you say (looks fine to me) but it's a base to play with and something to get stuck in to with the software side of things.
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I have some and it can lift my new rad. don't have a lot though.
Thank you @Irobot58 for approving of my hack method. If you use the right kind, velcro is great. It just puts some extra space in between your parts. And you get a little bit of sagging. It's perfect for the WiFi Cam though. Makes popping it off for recharging very friendly so you can still play with the rest of your bot while it charges. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking some up.
@Technopro, You can get decent velcro from Wal-Mart. I got some from a hobby store and I basically just overpaid for junk. I got some 3M from the Mart of Wal and it's done me right. They even have a super strong type, I don't think it's 3M but, I saw it today when I was there. I'm at Wal-Mart entirely too often.
I can't wait to see what you do with your RAD. Have you considered making a combat/air soft bot out of it? I want to make a battlebot eventually. I'm currently designing my next robot which will be, hopefully, a little "More than meets the eye"
I've got some flaws in my initial design but I'm correcting them now, 1 minor 1 major. I keep forgetting to consider the ezb itself
In other news, I also finally found a ball bearing roller (5/8") to replace the caster on FIIFAH. It's about 2/3 the height of the caster so I'm hoping it will stabilize my forward motion. It handles like a shopping cart now because, well, it has a mini shopping cart wheel in the back. But, I may just save it for the new guy. I'm very excited about my next project. I hope to have it ready in about 4 weeks time.
Thanks again guys!
I admire your ingenuity with using common easy to work with items and fasteners. I always way over complicate things. I am into my second year now working on Questor and he is just now taking his first steps....I mean rolls. I can't wait to get busy experimenting with scripting.
Keep up the good work! I am following your work with great interest.
I'm designing a new similar project to that now but with a little twist. I received a couple of tower pro mg995's in the mail last week or so and have my styrofoam all marked up. I just haven't gotten to cut it up yet. I'm going to have to disassemble FIIFAH for the servos and camera