lol
Good thing the kids were in bed!
Some more scraped off
Right, attacked the bot again with the jigsaw. Didn’t really loose any weight because 3 servo’s went into the middle deck. One of them will be used to rotate the laptop on top. 2 others I don’t know yet. Got some aloi tubing to shove over the wooden sticks that hold up the decks.
Since my daughter keeps nagging about a head I'll try to use the laptop for that.
Still a lot to do.....
Enough for today........
I knew
I knew the Greeks would fall for the butt :))))
Some more modding
Since a head needs a neck to turn on I build a simple panning/tilting mechanism which holds the laptop.
Bought a flat bearing since all other "flat turning tables" I came up with just didn't work very smoothly.
Since it holds the laptop I added some springs to lower the load on the servo.
Kids see things differently, to me (and most adults) the laptop will be the head with the 2 switches on the front side being the eyes. Not for my girl, the eyes are the pings and she doesn't know why the black thing is on top of it. So I'm thinking about more distinct facial features. Maybe even some eyebrows etc. to make it show some sort of emotion.
To me it looks like some sesamestreet character. More pimping to come.
Sorry for making this thread such a mess. I guess that's what happens when you don't really know what you are starting :)
Skype
Are you using Skype to control the robot, or just as a video feed? I added Skype to Bender this morning. Right now it is only being used as a feed but this weekend will be full remote via Skype.