Okay here's a bit of a tangent but if you follow my thinking for a bit you'll see where I'm coming from and hopefully going to.
I am currently trying to make "Lawrence" - a combination Viki/Jarvis from the movies I-Robot / Jarvis & Ironman.
I have been trying to do this for years but always came up against the brick wall of needing more time and having to learn more code... time mostly (I am a technology teacher in New Zealand.)
Well this year I completely revamped my teaching programme and brought my neglected hobby into the classroom... and the students and I got hooked.
We tried Arduino but this was amazingly simple compared to where I had come from 30 years earlier but still too complicated for most of the kids. Then I discovered the EZ-Robot.... watched a number of DJ Sures videos and then saved like mad... for the EZ-Robot kit.
Now I have done more in three weeks tan I have done in the last 30 years of tinkering.
So here is a bit about my journey and how I hope to bring it to reality starting with automating my workshop and then building my robot fleet (with the help of Lawrence of course!)
Other robots from Synthiam community
Daman's Metal Boxbot... Yes I'm That Impatient
DJ's Dalek
I have to laugh...
I purchased Cepstral Voices Lawrence a couple of years back for this project, a british butler voice file. It is very authentic and beats the old SAM voice I had on the origional Atari 600XL (Gives my age away a bit)
It is so good as a voice file that the ARC recognised its own replies and started talking to itself!
I said "Hello Lawrence." and it said "Hello Sir, how are you this evening?" back.
Upon hearing the "How are you this evening?" bit, which is also a voice command, it replied to itself "I'm fine thank you? And how are you?"
And then hearing the words "I'm fine thank you", it said to itself, "Good to hear Sir".
I was completely left out of the conversation!
I'll have to build in some sort of check for last statement made by Lawrence so that it isn't repeated.... kind of like DJ Sures Time Date example file...
DJ Sures this thing rocks my world!
LOL
LOL thats funny
(robot) Whats funny ? (robot) politicians are funny ! (robot) dont talk to me about politicians ! (robot) why cant i talk to you
NOooo You'v got me doing it now.
Steve_C.
Ha ha a robot like a crazy girlfriend
Oh that made me smile. :o)
I def do not need someone else leaving me out of a conversation.
Hahahahahaha
Samantha
could i use your idea dont worry i wont be taking credit of it or anything its just it would be cool to have a bunch od beetle like robots like the ones you are making
oh and i was wondering what grade do you teach?
and where do you get the cybots , i googled some for sale and all that shows up a a game and some other stuff
Sometimes you get these for very cheap here on german ebay (ebay.de) -these things had to be self-assembled. you had to buy a magazine that came with one part for each issue. at some point, parents stopped from buying these magazines for their kids cause the whole thing got too expensive. same thing every time, the very first issue is severly promoted, then once you hvae started it you want to finish it - bad thing is, the first magazine cost basically nothing whereas all the following issue were to buy for way more than the first issue price. so there is cybots fully assembled, cybots missing some parts, cybots...., you name it....
Hey Robotdude11
Ideas posted to the forums are free for all to use so go for it... we post because we love to share.... just do the same so we can all benefit.
As for Cybots, you just have to keep an eye out... kids leave home and parents wanting to claim back some cash try to spin them off... I have managed to get 4 here in New Zealand as they were popular.They vary in price but as more people cotton on to EZ-bot toy hacking I am sure the price will go up.
In contrast there are very few Tomy robots in NZ compared to what I see in the forums in the US.