Project Hearoid.

Rich

United Kingdom
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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...

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Today was the day, a road trip to pick him up and bring him back to his new home...

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In his new home (with Omnibot and Wall-e in the background totally unaware they are next in line to be opened up)

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It wasn't long before this happened...

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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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#345  

Rich, the new head is awesome, the only place I see to mount the camera without drilling head is under the mouth, perhaps disguised with a sticker sheet glass darkening car, although, subtract some light for your camera, to change the camera can not see from the outside. By the way, how many different modes of light in the head and mouth has its head? If each combination was a channel, how many channels would be needed to handle all combinations of light?

#346  

That brain reminds me of the Cyberleader from Dr. Who:

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Wouldn't take much to add some PVC pipe from one ear knob to the other, then mount the camera in the middle.

#347  

DAM i like it alot wow JEFF i have a voice mask just like that but without the brain

COOL IDEA for one of my robot designs THANKS for the photo ,will have to buy the brain soon might be a great idea for one of my two hearoids i have or omnibot project .

#348  

Wow that's a crazy looking head. Maybe yank the brain out and put ezb there lol

#349  

CRYBERMAN HELMIT i have doesnt have the brain insise and cant find any more on ebay only the complete 6 inch cyberman

JOSH the brain is what makes it so very cool,cant wait to get home and pull it where i have it and start hacking it .

I did on mine remove the black plastic pipes on top ,mine is gray and no clear acrylic on top

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#350  

@McJeff0125, the top of that helmet was similar to what I was thinking, and trying to explain. But it would need some pretty good fibre glass or milliput modelling done on it. We will see, I'm off work for Easter and the week after so hoping to have time to do some of the messier jobs then (arms for one)

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#351  

Just fitted the TIP circuit to the eye blink motor to test out the very simple script written for blinking.

The script is as basic as you can get really;


:loop
SleepRandom(250,2500)
Set(D9,on)
Sleep(50)
Set(D9,off)
Goto(loop)

Set to auto start from within the init script that starts on loading of the project.

That's pretty much all I've had time for this weekend though, but it's something at least.

#352  

I like! However my taste (for what that is worth) would be to have the lids move a little slower and pause more between the blinks if possible. He looks like he has a nervous tick. I know it a quick script and done just to see what it looks like. It is very cool though.

I think I missed this in this thread somewhere with all the dirt flying between you and "he that must not be named" but where did you get this head? It's really classic!