I loved the idea about modding my own omnibot so i found one on ebay and bought it
My initial plan is pretty basic, just put in some servo's for the head and arms, i have an H-bridge for the movement and put in a camera.
I bought it for about $51 and $64 shipping, but I ended up paying an extra $45 on import duties (which I think is ridiculous because it's not even sold anymore) I just got the box with my omnibot (it was shipped inside a burger king box ):
Look at all those stamps!
thank you!
Here comes the head
What a beautiful baby..
Fortunately, he wasn't that discoloured from the sun so I just washed him and didn't have to repaint.
Here's the entire collection of video's. Please excuse my poor English, I wasn't doing bilingual education back when I shot these:
I'm currently working on renovating him. He was very poorly glued together and his arms snapped off. I'm planning to release a final video before my visit to EZ-Robot in July.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Mickey666maus's Cycloidal Reducer 40:1
DJ's Teddy Ruxpin Robot V1
Don't try to go.too high on the camera. Get you a Logitech with 2mp resolution or lower. 640 x 480 works well. Ezb software doesn't support hd cameras yet.
@NIEK i also found a schematic for ominbot by tomy and robie sr this site has some manuals on alot of robots,plus some schematics and lots of great info and links
omnibot by tomy schematic
@robotmaker
I just looked on ebay but that's $200+ w/o RAM and hard drive while i only payed $100 for the eee pc second hand..
@niek i got mine on ebay $125 and other one for $85 both had hard drives one thing about the eee pc ,it draws about 3 times as much current much more heavy ,so will need a bigger battery and larger batteries to handle the load,i have asus netbook eee model and found all this out $200 one you found might be new,since thats near the price of one
@robotmaker Could you please look one up on ebay for me then? I didn't already buy the eee pc so there might still be hope
so far none used on ebay,they sell quick
Great video. i wish you a lot of luck with your BOT.
@niek or anyone else here is a place that sells domes for any size on omnibot its 8 1/4 " with 1/4 " flange
plastic domes any size