Introducing Questor.
I put a hold on my large robot project Magnus awhile back due to budget and time constraints. I wanted to have a platform that was way smaller, easy to modify for testing purposes and small enough to roam around inside the house autonomously. Questor will serve as a test platform for systems that will eventually be placed in Magnus. Questor was not intended to be a cool looking robot platform, just functional and very basic in appearance. My main goal is for him to be autonomous with the option of me being able to take over remote control separately if needed. I would like for him to be able to automatically find and connect with his battery charger and to eventually have a good A.I.
So here is a first look at him...
Weird....the pictures below [b]this line were not intended to be here in this first post. When I made the new post below, it saved the pictures in this post also. When I tried to go back and edit them out of this first post they don't show up on the thread so I can delete them. They belong in the post below....see details for the new wheels in the later post.[/b]
Other robots from Synthiam community
Jstarne1's Meet Squeegee , The Flooring Mopping Robot ,...
Mattbrailsford's Omnimc
@Rgordon - it was awesome to see questor in person , its nice to be able to "walk" your robot to the booth instead of carry him!
@jstarne1 - Thanks Josh! Just need a mini crane to lift him
I enjoyed meeting you and your brother. It sure was a lot of people there. The noise level was stressful. Just wished DJ could have given us posters and banners, and also flyers to pass out....
It was frustrating that we encountered so much interference and noise that our bots could not function to their full potential. mad
I was really impressed with the level of detail on and in your robot "Jarvis". That was good choice for paint color also. I really like that deep red. I will be continuing to follow your thread with great interest. I look forward to future videos of this robot in action! The Air Soft robots were very cool. You and your brother have a good talent for painting.
I'm proud to know you and your brother... and my life is better for it....
Rex
@RGordon thank you Rex , I appreciate your kind words and participating in the fair. It was a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing more developments on questor and your future robots. Maybe next time I will use a class 1 Bluetooth with a little more juice perhaps that will hold a connection better in a harsh ref environment like we experienced.
Also a rule of thumb for selecting capacitor is 1000 mfd per 1000ma,thats what all engineers use in designing circuits.
Also any scope can tell you how much ripple voltage there is ,you want it as low as possible.
Another idea that helps is SPG single point ground ,thats all ground wires going to a single connection or tie point.
@robotmaker
Thanks Fred for the nice comments. Thanks for the advice on the capacitor. I would like to try it. Got to replace the faulty power switch for the motherboard first though. I think that is the whole problem. When I checked the switch with my Ohm Meter I caught it reading approximately 4 ohms at one point (should be less than 1 ohm), when I toggled it. Once or twice it did not work at all...it read infinity in both positions when I toggled it. That's what I get for using stuff out of my junk bins instead of buying a new one
I am also going increase my wire gauge size when I replace the switch.
Yes I do know about SPG and that is the way all of the items on Questor are wired.
@jstarne1 - Yeah Josh I would like to try that class 1 Bluetooth also. Have you got a source for it yet?
Thanks for posting the picture BTW.
Also Josh I would like to start posting videos. I have never done this before. How do you go about it? Can you give me a short tutorial? When I copy the videos from my camera they are .mts files. Will I need to convert them to .flv or some other type file to be able to post it on Youetube?