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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Quick (and short) updated before I go to bed...
Hearoid's neck is now fitted, although it looks too long to me so have a shorter C bracket on order which should arrive tomorrow or Friday. If that doesn't help much then I guess I will have to fix the bracket up into the head rather than fix to the bottom.
It's very top heavy at the moment without the base fitted or any weight at the bottom, which is why there are no videos of it moving just yet (I tried but he just wanted to tumble over causing me to throw the camera to the floor to save the robot.
Eventually, once it's the right length it'll be covered with some flexible duct.
I'll do more images, videos etc. when I get more time.
I have to say I've got so used to no bubble on the head that it just looks right now and with the bubble it looks wrong, which is great news
if you dont need the bubble ,i do refinish them to look almost new
You can make them nice and clear? Can you do that do a robie jr dome?
@rich I keep my solder iron tip clean with 400 grit sand paper. Works great cleans oxidation and carbon right off.
yes,bought a plastic refinish kit and 4000 grit sandpaper and 1000
It may not be much to you guys but it's a great motivation booster getting the HBridge wired up and working.
I'm still struggling with the head, well, not struggling I know what I need I just cant source it in the UK... Basically, the pan/tilt bracket is too long and it means the neck is as long as the head is high, which looks wrong even when the flexi duct is attached... That's tomorrow's project... then on to playing with tracking
can easy cut the bracket and make it shorter,one cut and splice it together or cut it to length and drill holes for the mounting of tilt servo ,can easy cut the end off and use that as a template to drill the holes
That's the plan. I guess I should have just fabricated my own bracket from the start, it would have been quicker and cheaper... At least I know for next time.