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
Clode's The Canadian Mars Explorer :-)
Gotrobbed's The R7 Droid Project
@RICH I guess i will ask you the same question you ask me,HAVE YOU FINISHED 100% any robots you made using EZB ?
@toymaker,@Rich,@ Troy........ personalites, character ,behaviour and emotions truly sets great robots apart from toy robots or science robots. Roomba's are ok but totally lack personality IMO... Rich your solution to provide emotions is awesome....@Troy lights also can give a lot of personality...An R2 D2 unit with whistles and lights and a little movement made it very endearing. For me adding a cool personality is a bigger kick then solving an engineering issue...though that can be a pretty big kick...like landing Curiosity on Mars WOW
@robotmaker, you can see the progress made with Melvin if you read the 53 pages of posts. You can see he has evolved from what he was once going to be. There is a high chance that he will never be 100% complete. You can follow the progress of Jarvis on his showcase topic also. Testbot was complete however has now been re-purposed. EZ-BoxBot was completed but was not documented and has since been re-purposed.
@irobot, thanks.
SAME on my omnibot design and my lynxmotion johnny five very big projects
You should try and put these on Melvin. LOL
I was looking at some similar to that before the brain transplant. Unfortunately Melvin has kind of ground to a halt for a while now.
@Troy Those eyes are cool but cost more than a 3d printer! Better to just make your own. They cost more than $1500. Just buy eyes from China and print the rest unless you are good at painting eyes then make your own. Any Elvis on ebay would be cheaper and comes with the eyes, mouth and more.
@mcsdaver It was kind of a tongue in cheek comment because they look kinda creepy. I can imagine that using the video someone can reproduce the way it's done on a 3D printer.