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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@Dave, realism is something I'm trying to get. But how about this for realism
(note: timings are slightly off still but I haven't spent long on it).
Hmmm, I guess he has a head cold... Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Rich, don't forget the ServoSpeedRandom, ServoRandom and SleepRandom. You can give him that "just lookin' around and chllin'" look.
Of course it will take some tweaking of the controls to make it look natural.
HI GUYS
long time no post (Iv been ill)
Like the head design rich . Looks and works great.
Starting work on my robot again , The brain in your bot is kinda like the one i made for AGEIS
Take a peek
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Steve_C
Hey Rich! Hearoid has great personality, I like your moves, but remember to put a jacket to go outside, the cold unforgiving UK, ha ha ha.
RICH great job on the head,video's look great
Scripts look good,so i might work for my omnibot designs and others.
HAPPY EASTER
@Troy, I have a whole load of small animations written like the sneeze, cough, random looking around. Although the cough and sneeze may not be used as it currently doesn't have sound in the robot (the video posted was sound from my PC).
Once I eventually get the arms sorted out there will be a few more moves to come too. Hopefully they will be done next week but I have my reservations on using the existing arms, if they don't work the plan is to build new arms from scratch - although they would require more servos per arm than the 3 per arm the existing ones would need which would mean 2 EZ-B would be needed. I'm tempted to go down that route anyway but at the moment time and money don't really allow it.
And thanks for all the great comments everyone else
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@rich you make a great point on interactivity with the environment. Maybe it would be fairly simple to use a barometric pressure sensor and humidity sensor to figure out when weather is wet or storming outside and all of a sudden he gets the sniffles and sneezes every once in a while lol pololu.com and a few other sites have them under ten dollars - Josh S