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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Steve's James, Commodore 64 Retro Robot That Learns And Uses...
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Damn suspense...
Thanks to a very generous donation (thank you) Melvin now has a new head
It's only sat in there at the moment, I need to work out how to fix it in, how to make the eyes work with the EZB (without using any additional ports) etc. but it looks like it's roughly the right size and I'm sure I can do something with it.
IT looks very cool RICH
As if it was made to fit perfectly!.. However nowhere obvious for the camera to go now (I'll fit it in somewhere).
And you haven't seen the best part yet
but I can't show it yet as it all needs wiring up. Which may require a second EZB...
That looks great, Rich!
Could you hide the camera in the base of the neck?
OR under his eyes looks like a good place You going to cut the ears off they kinda doest look very good
Not much space in there as I did think that. I have space to the left and right at the bottom but I don't want it to be too obvious that there is a camera in there.
I haven't fully explored the brain yet, there may be just about enough space below the eyes to squeeze it in, or even adapt the very top of the helmet slightly to allow for it. The thinking cap is on anyway and I will fit it in
I may remove the mouth piece depending on how well it works out. I could replace it with something similar which could house the camera and the Larson Scanner (which currently isn't being used - the mouth does pretty cool stuff by itself)
I'm just shocked at how it looks like it is made to fit. Even the small posts on either side of the brain (where originally tubes were fitted) line up perfectly and those hold it in place.
If it comes to it with the camera I could always change it so it's static on the body somewhere and remove the pan/tilt from the neck but the pan/tilt on the neck is one of my favourite bits about this build.
ON the diode you said it was the right place to put and i said from the beginning it was to be put across R2 Reason you wasent getting a correct reading you was using the diode as a zener to regulate with R3 ,using it across R2 its used as a protection
BUT PEOPLE SAY I WAS WRONG to have it across R2