I know I should finish Melvin before starting a new build but Josh's Jarvis has inspired me to give my JARVIS a physical form.
Some already are aware that I already have a JARVIS like system installed in my whole house which carries out a multitude of tasks from being an automatic PVR (like Tivo but better), controlling the heating and hot water system, controlling lights... too much to list really but one day I will attempt it.
Anyway, since it doesn't currently use ARC or an EZ-B I haven't posted much about it on here, but that's changing for 2 reasons...
- To inspire you guys to open a can of awesomeness and
- Because finally JARVIS will become a real robot rocking an EZ-B.
Basing the design around a RAD V1 robot
So far all I've done to the RAD is stripped it down - why they soldered every connection is beyond me!..
A lot of the choices I make on this project will be chosen by JARVIS. I will be adding some scripting so that I can ask him things like "What colour do you want to be?" and he will choose... this should make it interesting
Like I said, his brain is existing and has been for around 2 years, with new features being added all the time. You know what, let JARVIS tell you himself a little bit about him
For more, check out Jarvis Youtube Channel or www.JARV15.com (under construction)
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I'll be using a service. I found a place in the UK that does it, not sure if they ship internationally or not though.
3dprint-uk
Just waiting for them to catch up with their backlog. It's either them guys or shapeways but shapeways want close to 30 for the same, 3dprint want about 6, and are in the same country as me which helps.
I was looking at 3d printers but they are a bit too pricy at the moment and I can't really justify one yet. Maybe when I get on to my lifesize biped project it'll make financial sense but until then it doesn't.
I was considering a solidoodle 2 500 bucks. I mean its 500 dollars but if you are doing a handful of prints you can end up spending that much on a project.
If only they were that price over here, cheapest I found (although wasn't looking too hard) was 1200 which is around $1800... I'm sure there must be cheaper but everything kept sending me to US sites so I gave up trying to look.
At 6 a print (roughly 2.5"x2.5"x0.5") that's 200 prints without taking into account the material cost. That would take a while for it to start being worth it.
I am looking to get one fairly soon will post photos .
Look on ebay JOSH for the ARC reactor and instructables site to build one.
Quick update...
I got the price back for the 3D print and I totally missed they have a minimum order value so it's either 3 ARC Reactors or I need to squeeze more parts in to the same print... So I'll be making a few more parts from the looks of it... What parts I'm not sure yet though.
And, it's time... it's now got to a point where I need to know what colour Jarvis wants to be so I am about to run the script for picking the colour. I changed it slightly to use the BlinkM and get rid of the annoying "but I also like" bits I added in. It's going to be the first colour to be chosen twice... place your bets now
I will pass on betting its just not for me, just waiting on the script soon
I bet 2/3 on silver and 1/3 of my imaginary chips on brown.
Possibly you could just have someone ship you over one. The small amount of shipping would be worth it to save 600 dollars, or just wait till you have a buddy who is cool with doing the prints cheap for you.