Here's a little Ironman type workshop script I have running now that the multiboard is wired up...

Very simple but created quite a stir with my mates when I invited them over for a coffee and spoke out loud...

"Lawrence" (Enabling voice recognition)

"Initialise the workshop"

Initialising workshop

Say("Implimenting Workshop initialisation Script.") sleep(3000) ControlCommand("Connection", Connect0) Set(d1,on) Set(d2,on) Set(d3,on) Set(d4,on) Say("Enabling Power Grid.") sleep(3000) Set(d0,off) Say("Turning lights on.") sleep(2000) set(d1,off) Say("Starting air conditioning.") sleep(2000) set (d2,off) Say("Opening Web Browser to E Z Robot web page.") Exec ("C:\Documents and Settings\Lawrence\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "http://www.ez-robot.com";) sleep (6000) Say("Will there be anything else, sir?")

My reply "No, that will be all thank you Lawrence." (Disabling voice recognition)

I was going for touch panels throughout the house and X10's but not anymore... it's all going to be EZ-B's !

Thanks heaps DJ Sures... I can't wait for the new smaller boards.

Welcome to the community! Looks good so far. I think that's great you are getting your students involved. EZ-Robot is really a wonderful platform.

Samantha

Great to see someone in the robot "Can do" zone. You are an inspiration to those of us getting our Robots - to be robots, that is to say, complete tasks and help us in our environment. A video of your creations in action would be great -

Cheers

Finished making the 4 relay unit safe and secure... packed full of glue to keep kids fingers out.

You can just see the reset button ... oh and I added a personalised nameplate for the top of the box to remind me it is my first EZ-related project... Made the label with our schools new Makerbot 3D printer.

The perspex PC is mine... I'll bring it home at the end of the year and give it a heart transplant to become the home server that hosts by EX-Builder software...

A bit like Orac from the Blake 7 days

Then it will be back to the bots!

Here I am starting on the 8 relay switching unit for the other side of the workshop.

Honestly I can't wait to get the server up and running and these things out of the way so I can get onto the robots again.... but there needs to be order.

Order and a cleaner workshop so I can go mad making... he he he.

Will post video when I have this part of 'the great scheme' working.

Probably won't be this weekend though.... my turn on the sound desk at Alive Church in Whangarei....

lol

@tameion why are you using relays,first they draw a lot of current,there are mosfets that are very low current and can be made into like a relay ,like SPDT or DPDT or 4 poles of contacts

i see what you are using the relays for AC CONTROL ok on that should use a MOC3011 OR IF 220 volts MOC2011 and the correct traic very low current drive about 1 ma or more to turn it off or on and its isolated traics have high current out,and can use a pwm signal for dimming relays are very old school and not used much

Yeah I know... but a local online trader was spinning them off oh so cheap... besides it was something big and chunky that my students could see and hear switching.... (A very audible clicking sound)

I would not go this direction normally because of the heavy current drain, and certainally have not in my robot projects, but as this is part of my workshop upgrade and AC power being readily available on one of the data lines in the cable grid I have set up I was being lazy... lol

I'm just in a hurry to get some of the dreamed automation in place in the workshop so I can say, "Lawrence, turn on the soldering iron on please... oh and while you're at it turn on the extractor fan as well."

I deliberately maintained the ability to plug things directly into a manufactured multi-board but had initially started taking the plugs off the ends of my tools and was wiring them directly in but then changed my mind and put them back on again so that I could still take the soldering iron to school, etc.

I came across this but it was more expensive and on the other side of the world!

Besides it only allowed me to switch 1.5A in total.

Running the 25W & 40W soldering iron, glue gun, and extractor fan + computer in the workshop comes close to that alone. The relay option let me forget about the amperage of the load being switched.

Have you seen a pre-made module anywhere on the market that I could use instead?

yes i have a few SOLIDSTATE RELAYS OR SSR,i mostly sell them on ebay alot my main robot working on does what your does and a lot lot more,it uses AI SOFTWARE plus has emotions,face and object recognition,plays movies and music look up the internet list is so very very long,plus it controls everything in my house,from spa control to A/C control,dimming lights,alarm system,any thing electric,X10 SYSTEM plus anything video and audio with USB-UIRT module,i can bring up the name of the software since DJ said no

email me [email protected] i am electronics engineer and need any help in designing anything my help is free mostty know about sensors,i have or know every sensor made

next on my robot is to have him cook