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
Tameion's Lawrence The Butler
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Sfoy's My Frankenbot - Robosapien, Hearoid, Ottobot Head
Looking really good Rich. You have made some good progress!
yea I said it too he did do a real good job on it,wish i had more time like he does,but in a month (counting the days) i will
The 6v on the elbows make such a difference, as can be seen in the videos... in fact I needed to slow down the arm servos. Removed the arm again recently though to get it a bit more solid and fix it to the shoulder servo a bit better.
I've neglected it for about 3 weeks now though but hopefully I'll find time to get back on it this weekend and get the sensor mounted properly, fit the servos in to the right arm and sort out the shoulder servos.
I'm really tempted to add a slight riser to the base too, just to give it a little more height so the arms can hang down straight and make the neck look more proportionately correct. What I would love to do is give him working legs and turn him in to a biped but that's a little beyond me at this stage.
BIPED desigh is hard,i ordered a kit with out servos,needs a gyro and more
You should teach it to moon walk.
I plan to!.. I have some videos planned and the frames set up, he just needs his arms before it'll work right
I was bored so decided to move my schematics over to Circuit Lab, and then got carried away by drawings the Schematic for melvin.
I realise it's probably difficult to see from the image but click on the word Schematic above (or there) and open it in the editor, play around, copy bits, go nutsAs you can see, I have used the EZB pretty much to the maximum possible. I think I have 1 ADC port free (planned to be used for current monitor) and 1 Digital port free. Some things may need to be combined to make way for the possible future MP3 module and 4th servo on the arm for opening/closing the claw.
cant see the schematic very clear ,both clicking on it and the link
You should try pcbexpress its easy to use and imgage can easy made any size ,plus up to 4 layers and then have a circuit board made for it