Now I have the EZ-B kit and the Hearoid it's time to start my Showcase thread.
I still haven't decided on a name for him yet, all suggestions are welcome.
I won this robot on ebay weeks ago, for the past 2 weeks he has been waiting for me to collect him...
Today was the day, a road trip to pick him up and bring him back to his new home...
In his new home (with Omnibot and Wall-e in the background totally unaware they are next in line to be opened up)
It wasn't long before this happened...
Now waiting to go in the dishwasher to get nice and clean.
The plan is to make him autonomous, running 24/7 (except for when he knows to go charge himself up) but will also be adding in the various image tracking options.
The only other slight modifications to be made to him are to convert the head to tilt & pan which will involve having to give him a small neck.
The head will include the camera. I haven't yet decided to fit it in one of his eyes or to make it his nose. The issue to overcome with this is the blue tint on the bubble head. The mouth will have a light or some lights in which flicker when he speaks.
The arms will be given some life with servos at the shoulder joints and the elbows provided I can get them to fit in there nicely.
Ultrasonic sensor will be in his chest, probably on a servo to give a wider view.
Original drive wheels and gearbox seem to be in very good shape so will plan to reuse those and just replace the existing motors for the modified servos if they can manage the task.
Speaker and microphone will be in the original positions - if it's not broke why fix it?
Not too big a project but enough to give me a test, help me learn and bring an old robot back to life.
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when i have time will look at one my hearoid like your and since i design arms May be able to help build a better one,i mostly spend over a few months just designing arms
The idea is to keep it as close to the original as possible, using anything but the original arms will throw that totally out.
It seems the buzzing is louder as the vibration is being amplified by the plastic where it's all a little loose still, I plan to firm it all up at some point which will quieten it all down a fair bit. I know the servo positions to move it to before release so it sits nicely too so the noise would only be when the arms are doing something which I can live with.
Now it's just the claw hand to deal with but if it comes to it I'll just make it so the claw doesn't lock open and it should be fine.
thats very same on my projects,like the omnibot 2000,i keep the hand just way it is
building your own gear boxes like i do ,you get higher torgue and using less or the same space as a servo,and has RC input
One thing you could do on the servos (aka josh) is use dynamat sound deadening mat on the servos. I used it for the arms in my mini-B9 project and it really helps.
I never thought of that. I need some for the drive gearbox so I'll give it a try.
Yea if you get name brand dynamat its even better that "peel and seal" roofing product. You can double the layers as well. I would send you some Rich but im out myself. I sent a few squares to gunner and Bret who both had good luck.
Don't worry about it, I have some already Josh, I've used Dynamat in my cars on many occasions and have a load of small offcuts which I expect will be perfect.
I am not familiar with Dynamat, is that an automotive product? servo buzz is really annoying. I was thinking of using a building product called "blueskin" which is a waterproof material to go around window sills. Or what about using a heavy internal greese,....any thoughts Robotmaker " thats very same on my projects,like the omnibot 2000,i keep the hand just way it is
building your own gear boxes like i do ,you get higher torgue and using less or the same space as a servo,and has RC input" I would REALLy appreciate knowing how you make your gears, or a how to link! Thanks so much!