Hey all. Well, my J5 has sat by my desk relatively unused for almost a year. I presented it at the Museum of Science & Industry last fall, but aside from that it has been gathering a bit of dust. Since organizing Mech Warfare and building my own Mech I simply don’t have any time for this project anymore and don’t see that changing anytime soon.
So, I’m looking to sell the robot. It’s a great PC based robotics platform and would give an excellent starting point to anyone looking for an advanced project platform. This robot was featured on the cover of the September 2008 SERVO Magazine, and I’ll even include a copy of said issue 
It is a heavily modified Lynxmotion Johnny 5 platform, which alone retails for $1000. I have expanded the arms, augmented them with 6 HSR-5990s, added a pan/tilt head with 2 cameras and an LED mouth that is sync’d to the voice output. Most importantly, I’ve integrated a 1ghz VIA C7 Pico-ITX Motherboard-CPU running Windows XP, which has 1gb of ram and an 80gb harddrive and WiFi. I have Roborealm loaded on the robot, capable of various colored blob tracking via the onboard cameras, as well as a number of motion sequences programmed into the SEQ servo sequencer software. It’s pretty much ready for someone to take and run with, but not a project I would recommend for a complete beginner.
For more information on the project, see my thread here: forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=1312
and here: lynxmotion.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3004
I’m asking for $1500 for Johnny 5, as-is, although it is in good working condition. If you do the math on all of the components, that’s a fairly steep discount. I recall passing the $2500 mark on all the components while building it. If you’re interested, please send me a PM.
