R.O.O.S.T.E.R.

budel0

Netherlands
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Hello fellow EZ-B'rs, As I finally discovery how to upload photos I thought it was time to share my robot with the world. It's called R.O.O.S.T.E.R which stands for: Remote Online Operating Scientific Testing Electronic Robot (took me about an hour to come up with that, but I like it).

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It's based on the 6 wheeled Dagu Wild Thumper kit. On top of that I added a 5 DOF robotic arm and a netbook.

The specs:

  • 6x 6v 6A motors
  • 2x 20A Rc Car ESCs
  • 2x Reddragon 2s 25c 1200mAh
  • Ofc the Ez- B
  • Dfrobot 5dof robotic arm
  • Asus Eee pc 900hd
  • Ping sensor (well... I sort of broke it... It got stuck between the robot and the wall...)

Why I'm building it? Because I can, robots are Awsome, the EZ-B rules and I got tired of burning/shocking myself when I'm testing one of my "crazy" contraptions.

Up coming updates for robot:

  • A rotationplatform for the arm.
  • 2 gigantic lipo batteries.
  • camera+ pan/tilt turret.
  • Small rockets
  • mini mini-gun
  • Flamethrowler (a failed version of a liquid fueled rocket, but it's working if you call it something else)
  • coilgun
  • railgun
  • Lots of other things I can come up with.
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Netherlands
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Some extra pictures.

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Synthiam
#3  

Very cool! That looks like it should be on the moon roving around

Australia
#4  

That arm is looking good:)

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I'm really liking your bot! I was actuallyt looking at that platform a couple days ago. It's a little to expensive for my tastes, but would love to have one! Where did you get the arm? Can you post a link? Great work!

Netherlands
#6  

Oh thanks man! I've been working on it for quite a while now. I bought the robot arm from EBay. It's quite expensive though. But after doing lots of calculations and research I figured that if I'd just buy it as a set it would be cheaper for me. It depends in what country you live... If I buy something from outside the EU I have to pay 20% taxes over the complete amount I've payed including shipping when I receive it! If the object is over 20,-. And if I would buy it in parts I would probably go over that eventhough everything is cheaper outside the EU if you don't count shipping...

Netherlands
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A few days ago my brother gave me a peace of LED-strip and a few LEDs, that gave me an idea.

Nightmode:

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It's still in its testing phase and I still have cleanup the wiring, but it looks cool. I might even design a small board to distribute power from my Lipos to everything. More coming soon!

Netherlands
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Latest update: I finally finished my robotarm. It now has 6 DOF! Under the existing arm I mounted a servo. It's a simple design, which I might change in the future to lower the height of the arm. I was planning to use a servo that could do 360 degrees, but I probably mixed something up and accidentally bought a modified servo... But It's oke... To fix this problem I'll mount in 1 or 2 microswitches to define a starting position.

Here some photos:

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