The first real but not main reason for Wall-E construction was that my son loves movie Wall-E and the second one was that I lost my son because of his abduction by his mother from his home and subsequent divorce in a country where the law is just a piece of paper. This (Wall-E robot construction) was and is a way I could be with my son.
So back to the project. Wall-E from Louis T was an inspiration for me. But I found own way how to solve construction challenges, how to replace wrong or destroyed servos etc.
List of necessary parts:
EZB Board V3
Metal gear digital high speed modified continuous servos for wheels - HS5245MG
Micro metal gear servos for wheels tilt -HS81MG.
Mini metal gear servos for vertical arms movements - HS81MG.
Micro servos for horizontal arms movement -HS56HB.
Micro metal gear servo for vertical neck tilt -DS-939MG.
Micro metal gear servo for horizontal neck movements-HS81MG.
Micro servos for individual eye movement DYS 0202.
Sub-micro servos/mods for eye's lid animation HK 282 with voltage regulator 5V/3,3V.
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 and white high power LEDs between eyes.
Mock up left eye's lens.
Analog Sharp GP2Y0D805Z0F IR Range Sensor
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder
Wirelless 2,4G camera
199MP3 Module
SD memory card
Dual 3W amplifier
BT module
BEC 5V separate power supply for amplifier
LiIon Battery monitor and old toy U-Command Wall-E from eBay
LiIon Accu - 3,4Ah 7,2V and with protection circuit 5A
One image replaces a thousand words, so now I will use pictures with short description:
1. Dissasembly:
2. Installation of 1st Floor
3. For installation of hands I used little bit different approach then Louis T
4. Installation of 2nd Floor
5. Installation of 3rd Floor and Neck
6.Installation of Head with Eyes
7.Electronic circuit installation
First proposal was not good
Accu was too big and heavy
I had to find another solution - smaller 2 accus LiIon 18650 Panasonic 3,4Ah cells with protection circuit
Smalll update of Head -Eyes moving
Better solution with final placement of cables, mp3 circuit, comm BT
First charging process
Charging connector and Wall e looking at my son
Video with Wall-E object recognition and sensor tests will follow...
Other robots from Synthiam community
Justinratliff's Walle Built With Iotiny
Ericez's "Dog" The Little Robodog Ez-B V.4
here are sounds off wall E and some others to.
soundboard
to download from ez cloud.choose the one calt soundboard.
First say that is an amazing job and you inspired me to buid one.
Following your job and Adria Garcia (http://diymakers.es/wall-e/#prettyPhoto), I'm trying to build my one Wall-e, but I'm having troubles to define low cost servo motors without loose quality, due Hitec seems really expensive.
How much cost all servomotors that you mention?
And also, where you bought them? At hobbyking?
Here at local stores, price of hitec is doubled :(, so I will have to find a european provider that have all range of servos.
By the way, I understood that requires to be metallic gears and digital to avoid tilt and be broken gears.
You believe that power hd servos could be an alternative servo to reduce costs?
Nice to hear your answer and pretty more great that you would work in it again (^_^)
Right now, a more or less pricing for me could cost about 400euros.
So my question is:
How about cost you mount wall-e?
Is for have a estimative cost what is acceptable to pay and what is over expensive.
My first block is money
I'm affraid to waste money and not catch main objective of robot.
Do you have any first advice to me to start and then advance step by step following money possibilities?
Due have robot open for much time I belive that would be a problem of dust and damage few components installed.
I suppose that start for microcontroller + batery + main motors of wheels could be a possibility and then add motors every month or like that...
Also problem to do like this is travel costs of each online-shop; so I don't know what is best...
Wait to earn all money and buy all, or buy in 2 or 3 times; to could afford more quick and could work through earning for new buying?
Sorry for writting you often, but is my first robot working from 0, learning through internet + some books, and I really appreciate your experiencies and from other buildiers to avoid errors and could done this wall-e experiencie that I'm so enthusiastic to do. *blush*
Following your project and news every month!
I hope you have luck with edge and obstacle sensors. Also add some soft rubber or cardboard couldn't help you for this matter?
Have a nice day!
I have built Wall-e with MCU V3. V4 is now easier. Anyway, it is necessary to solve the cameras connected to the MCU to fit the cabling into the braid.
WallE buildiers club -- . https://www.facebook.com/groups/790473184415755/
As a reference of walle buildier, I want to invite to participate to this club and also people who has participated in ezrobot forum.
I am very impressed on your job so I decided to follow your steps.
The first thing I am trying to figure out is the camera.
Can you provide detail product info of the camera module (manufacturer, model name)? I want to use same product because most of cameras that I've found doesn't fit into the Wall-E's eye.
Thanks
2.4 wireless camera