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
PJ's Robosapien ( R.A.I.D)
Ezang's Roman The Robot
YEA me too,i am making one close to it,i just got a BRIAN THE BRAIN head in,and have few types of omnibots ,so will be making my own design super soon.
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Are you going to share your arm designs with the community? I would really love to see those. It's funny how these things morph as you work on them, makes me think of Josh's Jarvis. Can't wait to see more pics and video of this fine robot.
Yeah I'll be sharing everything (as always). I was planning to edit my earlier message (there seems to be a two faced psychophant getting right under my skin again, for which I apologise if I can't contain it) with some sketches etc later but I'll probably just reply and leave that one blank.
That will be great RICH.
Unfortunately you will be unable to see them @Robotmaker since they will be hosted on my web space, which as you are aware you were banned from access.
So far I've concentrated on making it so that it fits the original omnibot/hearoid joint. I still need to throw in the servos for the hand/gripper and the hand itself. I also didn't have time to get many different angles of it but here's a quick sneak peek.
The upper arm should just slot right in to the shoulder joint on the Hearoid/Omnibot. It needs a little tweak as I want the servo in the torso to attach directly to this so I need to work out lengths etc.
The ring around the upper/lower arm joint is eventually going to become a servo horn that slips right on to the servo, my only concern there is the stability of the joint. It needs to be strong and not flex at all, this was a problem on the first arms I tried putting together and the reason I scrapped that idea.
One servo will be put right on the end on the lower arm for the hand to connect to allowing rotation while two (maybe more) servos will be inside the lower arm and connected to the "fingers" using a wire system to close the hand, rotation of the hand will make this awkward and is something else I need to figure out. One method I thought of was routing the wire system through channels but on rotation of the hand that would cause the hand to grip.
All very much a work in progress, the outside edge may have a few details added or become more rounded. Currently it's based off of the original arms though.
Also some posts and screw holes need to be added, positioned so screws are all on the inside edge yet remain accessible so the whole thing can be taken apart easily if servos need changing etc.
It sure isn't a 5 minute job
I did nothing on you site first off second this is about EZB robots ,please keep you comment to you self You posted that so DJ will see it and keep me banned is all you did that for.
IT seems that RICH will say or do anything to keep me banned forever on this forum ,ALL my comments are very nice ,fairly good grammar and no more fights.
I MADE very nice comments about you project ,plus my grammar is almost perfect
THIS forum is about robots please keep it like that
Wow. I really cannot be bothered to dignify that with a response.
In an attempt to keep the forums civil I kindly ask that you no longer post the same comment over and over in this showcase. You may not be aware of it but your posts have a negative effect on topics and (according to the 20+ people who have emailed me about you) fast become a "no fly zone".
If you have anything worthwhile to say then please do so, provided it is complete, clear and accurate. Otherwise it would be greatly appreciated by myself and a lot of the community if you were to keep your distance from me and I shall do the same.