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
Pirumpi's Ez-B, I Would Like You To Meet Nodejs
Cardboardhacker's Ez-Ollie
Rich, I can,t wait to see the new adventures of Hearoid, M.E.L.V.I.N. My favorite features are the sneeze, mood lights, and brain lights. I also liked the original blue head bubble. Nice Bot. Steve S
Thanks Steve.
He should be getting some TLC soon but work has been busy as has personal life.
I did hope to have him finished over my Christmas/new year break but that turned out to be busy and I've not really stopped since.
I have a load more small features like the sneeze ready for Melvin
It's all in the tiny details as far as I'm concerned. Sure, the big fancy robots are great and all but make them seem real and it doesn't matter if it's a small Wall-E or a huge B9.
I hope you continue this build! He makes for a very cool robot.
I will do but a lot of other stuff has got in the way this year. I was waiting for the regulators to be stocked in the store so I can upgrade Melvin to a V4 so now they are in stock hopefully in the new year I'll get back on to him.