Hey all. I was really excited when my EZ-B arrived about a week ago. While it was on its way I was searching around for my first project. Thanks to DJ's great website and Ebay I found what I wanted. I picked up a RAD 2.0 for 15 bucks. It did not have any remote or battery charger (so what). And today I started on it! I hope to post my progress here and open to any ideas you all might have. As you can see I wasted no time before I opened it up!
The RAD 2.0 has what looks like a decent track base with motors and gear boxes (a bit loud when I tried out the motors). It has a physical gearbox selector switch for High and Low gearing (I will need to put a servo on that) which will be cool to mess with. The interesting thing about this guy is that he bends at the waist. He also has two arms that work together to grasp an object. It looks like can bend all the way over and pick up an object on the floor (we shall see). After opening it up I noticed it appears to be a decent thing to start modding.
I have an H bridge on the way for the track motors and I probably going to need another if I want to use the existing motors that control the waist and arm movements. I am thinking of putting in a accelerometer as well so when the bot goes up or down hills it could stabilize itself automatically! It will surely have a distance sensor...just not sure where to put it yet, camera, and probably go with an MP3 trigger. You may notice the circle on his chest...The original toy was remote control and could fire nerflike darts (pretty neat). Not sure I will keep that functionality as I am thinking of other cool gadgets to hook up to him. Tonight I tackled the head movement.....I will post more on that later.....
Kevin
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@kkeast proximity they will work great for ,but watch false trigger ,depends in sens pot adjustment,like stoves,windows with sun heat source and others,move around you house alot with sun light comming in ,stove on,and any other heat source ,like heaters, turn them on without you moving ,if doesnt detect then its set good one my design ,using it for 2 reasons one is movement ,second is distance to sensor to set focus on camera and mike level another idea i did is get a TPA81 about $90 each,on this one can detect person size or animal or thermal image graph of the person using a panning design,it has a built in rc connection for servo for panning on mine i got it working to detect a candle ,small person like child,adult or dog and tell the difference between them,each heat source has a different heat temperature,TPA81 has array of 8-1
BRET using on the legs you will get a 360 deg front,back and side ,need one on each leg
@Kevin - I didn't know if you had picked one of these up yet for Legion's chest, but I just got this at Lowes near the checkouts. It was only 8 bucks on clearance and they had quite a few. Plasma Light:
It would even be cool as eyes in an omnibot 2000 or for those using the flashlights as eyes.BRET hope to get one if lowes has them still have the name or box it camme in
The box says "Mini Plasma Plate" and #58600. It even comes with the batteries. Let me know if you can find them at your Lowes. If not, I can make a run to the one near me and buy up what they have. Then shipping and 8 bucks and Bob's your uncle, you got one!
@ Bret, you said it...that is wicked cool! Gotta get to Lowe's tomorrow to see if i can find one!
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Kevin
LOL I got one off eBay. It was cool for a couple of days and in the trash now. The one I had said it responded to sound. NOT!
If you are careful you can get the back off to rewire it to get rid of the AA batteries. Don't try to take the circuit board out without unsoldering the 2 frail wires coming out of the plasma disk. I'm going with LEDs that are sound activated, One thing I can say is the plasma disk was cheap. $10.63 shipped from China
@kkeast - how did you connect your PIR sensors to the EZ-B? Are they DIO or AI? Oh I see, they are on DIOs. What is the wiring to the three pins on the sensor? I have the exact ones on B9.
they are digital output DIO on mine going to use TPA81 ,about $80 to $104 i want to tell between child ,adult and a dog or other heat sources only kind on the market that can do it,it has 8-1 PIR'S (total of 9) to make a thermal image other PIR'S cant make a thermal image (like photograph) of the heat source its I2C bus,and using the same in my OMNIBOT 2000 project when i start on it,have 3 already and did testing ,they really work perfect TPA81 PIR
HERE IS INFO ON SENSOR AND ABOUT THERMAL IMAGE