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
Robohappy's Cybot2.0
DJ's I Shall Call Him Norm
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you told me a better place to place the diode was after R3 and i told you from the beginning the correct place was across R2 thats why you was getting a wrong reading
REASON you got a wrong reading you are using it as a ZENER to regulate at 5.1 VOLTS using R3 at a current limiter
By placing it across R2 the voltage never get higher then 5.1 VOLTS
RICH hope the explains it better
BUT LIKE ALWAYS SOME THINK I AM WRONG until something doesnt work right
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JUST giving the reason you are getting the wrong battery voltage
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this is the post you did 3-13 and was telling the reason why you didnt get a correct voltage
"The LiPo circuit was giving incorrect readings, this was due to the diode being across Signal and Ground, for some reason it didn't like it (even though it is where I read online that it should be). Moving it across R2 solved the problem "
The camera wont fit below the eyes, there is a lot behind the eyes that is in the way. Also, the head tilts backwards so the camera would need to be at an angle for it to be level at center position.
I may need to adapt the stub for the neck which will mean altering how the pan/tilt bracket is fixed on to the head too (possibly).
I did notice some empty areas to the sides of the mouth on the mouth piece, I may be able to sneak the camera in to one side of the mouth. or even drop the mouth out and slightly down making way for the camera above the mouth.
It's a complicated head, let's just say the brain isn't empty
More to come on that soon (ish)
dont need to reply each time i post ,it also didnt say i was wrong on this post ,but on the post you did on li-poly circuit you said i was wrong