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.
Other robots from Synthiam community
Dave's New Building System At Servocity, Gobilda
DJ's Hey Jd, Need A Lift?
Not to mention band aids.
BRET did a really good job on the labels in ROBORAD PROJECT
Hi Rich,
Nice job on the robot! Maybe sometime I can pick your brain on some questions I have with my build.
That head is really cool...
Den
From what i see RICH design looks good,only saw a few changes i would make i have 3 of them at home and start on the someday soon,his design might give me a few ideas just i tried ti give him a few.but turn in to problems ,but thats in the past and hope over
@captor03 pick my brains any time.
I've still not finished this build; The arms need sorting and I'm in two minds to change the complete arms to something else or re-fit the connecting links that make the lower arm move. But whatever I do I need to do more dremmelling and create mess. The neck needs sorting with some grey plastic cover, I have white 100mm ducting which I can use if it comes to it but would prefer something more like Omnibot 2000's neck piece. I have some at work on the portable air con unit but it's being used... The front panel needs designing, making and fitting, all should be simple enough to get done though. LCD Display needs sourcing, fitting and programming. Sensors need fixing permanently. Paint needs to be applied. Decals need fitting.
So not much left to do. I haven't had time for any robot building time for about 3 weeks but it'll get there eventually.
Can we see a movie some time soon?
,waiting on the codes from my friends on LIDAR ,second since i dont now SDK thats the problem,but it is so very simple ,and DJ is will be very easy with a C# CODE since SDK uses C# and most the work it done already.
Plus there others who bought one from me to use on EZB and they know it needs a SDK,and most likely they are a programmer
Plus if anyone buys one from me and makes a code to EZB they get 50% back just to speed it up most of it should be very easy since it has all codes and was done easy in ROS
ANY good programmer should be super simple,i think only time holds them back
I can also let anyone borrow my board for LIDAR ,since i bought 2 of them.
@Erreul There are a few videos floating around but nothing great yet. When I get chance (and motivation) to bring him out of the spare room I'll do some videos.
In the mean time;
And
Oops, that last one isn't a robot...