It's been a very crazy past few weeks. I took a day off today. Yes! I admit it. I took a day off... And I built a robot
Felt great to be back in the hacking saddle!
This Wall-E hack from DJ Sures turned out great! DJ used the EZ-B Robot Kit to build an amazing real life Wall-E! He added the camera from the kit to Wall-E's head for visual tracking. He then added a horizontal neck servo and vertical head servo. Now this Wall-E can visually track motion, color and faces in two dimensions... Up, down, left and right!
For extra character, DJ added Wall-E sounds to actions and some voice commands. He whistles when asked to follow your face. He sighs and moans when his favorite red ball is taken away from him. Do not worry, he quickly perks up when asked to dance to the movie's familiar music score.
Be sure to watch the video and see this Wall-E in action!
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Hi DJ,
As per your post above regarding the ping distance sensor, how are you getting WALL-E to avoid obstacles if the sensor is not mounted on a servo (scanning)?
Would I need to add more ping distance sensors or add a IR sensor?
I'm waiting on my EZ-B & just want to make sure I have all the components ready for WALL-E.
Just leave the servo port set to NA
I'm going to be modifying the wall-e and attaching a servo at that point. Just a little micro servo. Because it really doesn't avoid that well without it moving. If you set the min distance to 20 inches, it's acceptable. But it will eventually catch it's tracks on something.
hey can u post a link to download the wall e sounds
im building 1 but i need the sound to upload it to the sound trigger
I'd like to download the latest EZB file for WALL-E, but it's not on the page. Anyone know where it is?
It's in ARC, under File->Examples
Thanks DJ,
Got my EZ-B, simply amazing!
Started building my WALL-E.
Awesome!! I'm making a user showcase section right now. Can't wait to see yours up there
What Wall-e was used to make this robot? I really want to give this a try, I know I read that it was the ultimate wall e, but this unit looks smaller. I have an ultimate and it's 17 inches tall and comes with a white remote that enables you to program a sequence of moves. It also has a back pack to hold and plug in an mp3 player.