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Introducing the ALTAIR (Affordable Latest Technology Artificially Intelligent Robot) EZ:2 Robot
The first unveiling of the EZ;2 Robot (the commercial version of the EZ:1 Robot that has been seen on this forum) - you guys are seeing the EZ:2 first!
I am proud to confirm that it will have "EZ-Robot inside" and powered by the awesome V4 - well done DJ and the EZ-Robot team for making such a great product that allows robots like the EZ:2 to be light years ahead of the competition!
The EZ:2 will also have face and object recognition capabilities and our advanced Ai engine and will work together with the ARC software.
Because we have been waiting to design in the incredible EZ-Robot V4, we are behind on our development schedule (but it is worth waiting for) and we will now start beta testing in 2015.
I wanted the EZ:2 to look like a robot and not a humanoid and you will see this reflected in the design. I guess not everyone will like the design, but it is practical for (low cost) mass production and because of its modular build transportation costs are reduced.
Hope you all like the EZ:2.
Tony
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Yes me too as well! many thanks
Oh yea tony , this is a epic distance sensor hack. I would really appreciate a "how to" on this retrofit 4 zone distance sensor. I imagine it would be useful for most robots
Here is an internal view of the ultrasonic array in the EZ:1 robots leg section.
You will notice the metallic tape that is wound round in the leg section this is an electromagnetic sensor system that senses anything (human, animal even furniture etc) approaching the robot at 360 degrees, its a very neat sensor.
So the front ultrasonic sensor array gives a very accurate detect (4 zones) of the front of the robot and the electromagnetic sensor gives a coarse detect of the complete surroundings of the robot (all directions).
I used one small 14pin PIC 16F1823 as the dedicated microcontroller interface for both sensors here.
You guys will have to bear with me on doing the hack thread, as I am up to my eyes in work currently on my new Cube World NG (Next Generation) toy range. I will get round to it as soon as I can.
Tony
Most of us aren't going anywhere @Tony. We'll be here when you're ready and able. Looking forward to seeing your Cube World roll out. Any idea on a timeline when we may be seeing that hit the market?
Thanks Dave! With Cube World NG we are currently looking for a major Toy company to run with it, so we have not gone to license yet, but hoping to soon.
I was thinking about you liking pinball machines etc so you may be interested in our Arcadie product (for the iPod, iPhone etc) here is the original sizzle that we made.
We have also done one for the mini iPad
Tony
Now that's cool! It kinda makes the long hours I put into making my full sized MAME arcade game moot and the big dinosaur of a game obsolete. However my version does have over 65K classic and newer vid games loaded. You can see it here next to my B9 robot in this pic:
Does your App come in Android version also? If not I may just have to switch over the the Apple when my contract up up soon or just go out and get an iPad. The iPhone and pad has so many cool things going for it.
Dear Tony
Great robot!
I would love to hear about the possibility of using the car sensors within a robot. That sounds so useful. I'd therefore like to add enthusiasm for a thread on this issue.
Cheers
Chris
Here is a view of the PICs LCD display when a wide object is 0.5m in front of the robot (all 4 zones are detecting the object).
The SENSE FIELD is the electromagnetic detector display.
As there are not too many of you guys interested, I will probably do a custom PIC for interfacing with the V4 and send out to you the pre-programmed chip, this would save you from buying PIC programmers to program just one PIC. It will be simple to use just a 14pin DIL package (internal oscillator) so no crystal or SAW resonator required that can be inserted in a soldered IC socket on a small piece of stripboard.
Tony