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
Jstarne1's Meet Squeegee , The Flooring Mopping Robot ,...
Bumsteadsean's Sentrybot
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i can easy post where you said it,but doesnt do any good so end of story on this
so back to your project like you said. might be good not for you to post anymore,but wouldnt be fair to others needing you good advice on coding
only trying to help and you try to put me down
I got impatient so rigged up the test battery and started playing with wires.
Still a bunch of things to figure out on it but that'll all come later
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Sweet!
I'm not sure about the brain colours, the LEDs are very bright so may need to throw in larger resistors to restrict the current etc. and dim them. But thought about making it different colours depending on his mood.
The mouth has a 5 core cable plus a single +5v supply (5 core to ground), but only 3 of the cores do anything that I can see so that needs more investigation.
His eyes move left and right too, but on a DC motor, continuous so moves all the way to the right then comes back on itself. I need to figure out how to use this with the EZB (@Troy you did similar with Pinhead didn't you?)
His eyes also close, which is pretty straight forward. Energise and they close, break the circuit and they open again. So a TIP transistor circuit for that one.
So all in all, it looks like around 8 digital ports will be needed for the new head, plus 1 for the camera... I may lose the ultra sonic sensor to free up 3 ports, 1 from the old eyes and 1 from the old mouth. And may look in to some other micro controller to sequence the mouth lights, or just have all 3 on at once to cut back on some ports. I want to avoid using a second EZB if possible.
That is cool!
Yes I did but there was already a feedback potentiometer in it. If you can figure a way to install one from a disassembled servo plus the circuit board you can have more control of it.
Here is an idea for the led lights. You can add a few of them through the I2C port and you have full control of color and intensity. They are pretty cool because they have preprogrammed pulsing sequences as well. By sending simple I2C commands, you can start and stop them. BlinkM
I've looked at the blinkm before but until now had no real use for them, its tempting but not cheap. May have to save up for a few of them
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Although I'm still toying with the idea of using an I2C micro processor to add a few more digital ports that'll control the LEDs and eyes.