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
Ezang's Here Is A Picture Of The Hand I Am Practicing With
Kashyyyk's VINCENT From The Black Hole
For the moment (mainly because I have 1 Digital Port free and 3 ADC ports free) the behaviour will be totally random. Although will have some animation set for the distance sensors used so that, while doing nothing if someone comes close he reacts to them.
That said, I do have access to temperature, pressure, humidity etc. through my home automation which is stored in MySQL and displayed in a PHP web page that I could use with the HTTPGet function, similar to how he can currently operate my lights and even turn the TV over or change the music being played... I'll have to look in to that one.
Sorry, in my last post I wrote Melvin (not sure why) referring to a robot, but I meant Hearoid, now being edited. I know how annoying that someone feels when you forget the name of his son.
@R2D2 his name is MELVIN Mobile Emulated Lifeform Virtual Intelligence Node
. You were right the first time.
JOSH I am looking at the same to control my X10 system all over my hoouse ,i have everything controlled BY IT,tv,stereo,pool,spa, A/C ,alarm and lot more
So I guess will share us the code soon,but HTTPget function looks easy but until i try it i dont know.
But do like alot is RICH'S help on his scripts makes thing very easy for the rest of us.
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Thats the name of those 2 creatures that knows everything in BILL and TEDS excellent adventure #2, i think.
Rich may be part of it may help.
ALSO JUST CURIOUS ,are you using X10 or another system to control your tv and radio