Inspired by DJ Sures and many other Wall-E projects on here, i decided it's time to make my own Wall-E and he will be my first robot build. I wanted him to be as lively as possible. I give credit to Joc's and Glickclik for the geared neck tilt and wheels tilt ideas, i just made it my own using the same concept. I still have yet to fully understand ARC so additional help would be greatly appreciated. Here is what im at so far in the project, some of the parts are hand made from raw Carbon Fiber with only a dremel and i use some parts from a 450 R/C heli as well as bearings in some of the joints.
Done so far:
Metal gear high speed modified continuous servos for wheels.
Micro metal gear servos for wheels tilt.
Mini metal gear servos for vertical arms movements.
Micro servos for horizontal arms movement.
Micro metal gear servo for vertical neck tilt.
Mini metal gear servo for horizontal neck movements.
Micro servos for individual eye movement.
Sub-micro servos/mods for eye's lid animation.
Get rid of dummy cables in the head, run all servos/camera wires from head down the same way and use heat shrink/black nylon mesh for realistic look.
Red laser between eyes.
Mock up left eye's lens.
Other things to be added/changed as i go
Yet to be done:
Light up solar panel (most likely, still thinking) Red LED in front in the black spot next to the solar panel (definitely) Make his wrist rotate (don't know yet, still thinking)
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I suppose it could but it'll be a lot easier just to go with the available parts. I almost gave up but i thought it would be suck because I already did all the modifications to get the tilt to work, so either I can lock up the wheel back to stock or fix it and so i played with more ideas and finally found the solution.
I've got Omni 2000 to work on as well, he's just sitting there now but for some reason I got attracted toward a spiderbot for my next project, like a quadruped or a hexapod. I'm leaning toward a quadruped because I would end up with more ports on EZ-B for some sensors and lights. My goal is to scratch build from ground up, not using any kind of frame kit which is very expensive. Will see after Wall-E is roaming
Here a video i just made to show you how i fixed the track problem or half the problem because only one side is fixed
WOW that's super solid! Yours truly takes first place for best hack!
Thank you! Now that you brought it up, I think DJ should have a robot building contest here, i think that is something missing from this community and need to have, may be given a project theme and dead line, 2-3 projects a year would be great given enough time for building, and of course a prize for the winner(s). I think this would really push for more robot buildings and get more attention to EZ-Robot.
Impressive. You could extend out that arm so you have more up and down track movement. You could make it look like walle is balancing on one leg!
jstarne1...Thanks man. That's a great idea but if i extend it it would look odd having a bar/arm on top of the wheel, just trying to keep it look stock as much as possible, im just so happy i got it to work with just enough amount of tilting than non at all
really great work 100% GREAT @Louis T and i ust want to tell you how did yo connect the two cameras at the same time? and is the two cameras really work together ? and what kind of the camera did you really use?
I believe that only one camera was used. He only makes it look like two if you look close. He certainly does excellent work doesn't he!