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
Kenny's Humanoid #3, The Miniplan
Jim's Ezbv4 Robot Lawn Mower
Isee your filing skills is bad as mine,i guess we have something in common.
Very nice!
Had gremlins wreaking havoc in Melvin all afternoon...
First the project wouldn't load - the speech settings were causing it to hang on loading (found out by merging a new project one control at a time). Windows problems as I couldn't use advanced speech settings through control panel either. But easy to sort out, just reboot (since it was on for 50 days without rebooting I should have done that sooner).
Next I'm having a few issues with the LCD turning off or restarting. It looks like when the servos move it is causing interference or limiting the power to the LCD - I need to look into that one, possibly supply the LCD from off of the EZ-B. The battery was low (7v - 3.35v + 3.65v) which may be the cause, it's on charge now so when it's back up to a balanced 8.4V I'll see what happens.
And lastly, the voltage monitor doesn't seem as accurate as it was before adding in the Zener diode. I know it's over voltage protection for if R2 shorts or open circuits but I'm tempted to remove it and see if it's any better. But my LiPo balance port monitor (stand alone unit) was giving different readings when I plugged it in just before putting it on charge.
So a few bugs in the system to work out but I expected no less really
At least with the battery on charge I will be forced to do the housework and everything else I was supposed to be doing today. I really need to build a robot maid!..
Sorry to hear your bad problems RICH ,hope you can fix it.
Can you build one wearing a French maid outfit!
Its A ENGLISH MAID
No I think I'd rather hire a real French maid, dude
I wounder why ?