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ZOE : A Machine That Resembles A Living Creature In Being Capable Of Moving Independently

Since my robot is running on a Raspberry Pi, which is now supported by ARC, I decided to evolve my current project K[8] into a new one called ZOE... First steps will creating a new servo setup which supports Dynamixel Servos,  and a new Conceptual design!!

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#105  

Clean your roomba. And make sure the connector pads on the bottom are clean. And the connectors on the charger. I have 3 roombas that always docked when i get home. If they don't dock, i clean the pads and the roomba sensors and the charger sensors.

#106  

I had to glue the charging dock to a thin metal plate so my roomba could dock easier. It drives onto the plate and docks.

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If you have an old 400 series Roomba they pretty much sucked at docking. Hit or miss as it were.... I have a few 400 series but I also have a couple of Roomba 650's and they pretty much have no issues finding and docking to their home base...

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@nallycat Supercool that you are fan of my early head concept, its available at Thingiverse now... I put it separate, not to be confused with the updated head design! Let me know if you are running into any issues!

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I am looking forward to see your remix!!!:D

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@DJSures I am super stocked that you will print a ZOE, and I like the idea of having EZ-Robot HDD servos added. While you are at it you should also remodel the head frame to host the EZ-B IoTiny and the EZ - B Camera, I already checked and realized that there is enough space to do so!

Good thing about a powerful software like ARC is, that it supports all kinds of hardware...

Also I like the idea of the Latte Panda, the LattePanda Alpha has really good specs!!

It will be great to see your improved remix of ZOE!!:)

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hey mickey

thank you for uploading the files.do you have a link from zoe's eyes?

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Sure, I got them from Adafruit...

In addition you will need the AIY Vision Kit to build the head, but you can also just use a Raspberry Pi Zero and the Pi Camera... Let me know if you need more info on anything! I will update the assembly instructions soon!:)

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