Hey Guys,
I've read lots on the forum, and posted a hand full of times, but I thought it was about time I launched my first major project (well, my second really, I converted a wall-e, but I thought there was enough of those on here
).
So here is announcing OmniMC, an Omnibot 2000 media centre
The idea is to make him all RC and to also house a Raspberry PI running RaspBMC as the media centre bit. I'll then add some speakers and maybe some under-bot lighting
I'm wondering if then I can control the whole thing with one of these:
Other than that, I'm kinda just winging it and seeing what other bits and pieces I come up with.
To start with though, I've done the usual thing of gutting him and sticking him through the dishwasher
So right now, he is prepped and ready to go.
I've already got my EZ-Robot kit, and a few components such as 6v battery
Some blue replacement bulbs
My Raspberry PI (which arrived today) and I've just won a screen for his chest
While I'm waiting for some other bits, I've also been looking at making some replacement tires which you can see details of in one of my other posts
So that's pretty much the state of play at the moment. I'm pretty much a novice at all this, so I'm looking forward to the challenge. Lets see if I've bitten off more than I can chew
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You can stream to the Rpi using Raspbmc. voxcommando on the PC running ARC so voice commands would control the media i.e. say "robot play music by ACDC" and it would play music by ACDC or "robot play movie wall-e" and it'll start playing wall-e.
Set up of the pi and of voxcommand is pretty easy, the worst part is the voice recognition and that's something to overcome regardless if you want voice control.
I have a similar setup for my htpc (and rest of house using eventghost too), the only difference is it plays the media through a local copy of xbmc (all streamed from a 2 nas drives, library setup as mysql so synced on all xbmc seats although UPNP through the pi is also supported) and plays it on my TV. XBMC/Raspbmc can be controlled remotely using it's API which is all supported by voxcommando.
Basically, you can easily do it all with the Pi and a little additional software on the PC (which a fully functioning version is available as a demo and full version isn't expensive).
Im glad your using "android" it feels appropriate
i have a compete media network in my whole house,2 large screens 50 inch and one tv ,plus have computers in every room including my kitchen computer ,network of 10 computers dam another idea for EZB control my kitchen appliances
MATT have a blessed safe christmas and a happy new year.
Thanks @robotmaker, you too
@matt I know i'm really late asking this but how much did shapeways charge?
Hey Troy, it depends on the model. You upload a file and it gives you the cost of how much it would be to print it.
ok I found an idea of pricing on the site. Now I need to learn how to do sketchup easily.