{"id":516,"date":"2019-08-25T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/?page_id=516"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:46:34","slug":"eyer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.protowrxs.com\/index.php\/robotics\/eyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Easy Yet Enjoyable Robot
(WIP 09\/2015)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Plus \u201cEyer\u201d means;<\/strong>
Ey\u00b4er
n. 1. One who eyes another.<\/em>
Which he is obviously doing\u2026 Plus he is a looker no? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Robotics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Actually I started this back in 2014 sometime during the heyday of a\n new 3D printer. This is obviously a derivative of FrankNeon\/DJUltis \nArduped and K\u2019s BoB design and in the same line as my original TED four \nservo walker. Sure the feet are directly from Frank\u2019s design.\n
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3D Printing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The print was pretty easy from what I remember. The design is pretty\n good and printed for me at least without issues. The shell is pretty \nthick however so unless you lighten up your fill it may be a bit heavy. I\n had more black filament than anything else so he\u2019s black. I like blue \neyes so the iris is blue.\n
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Brains and Power<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The brain is a normal old 5v ProMini that I put on a modified \ncircular breadboard from Radio Shack and a Pololu regulator that I\u2019ve \nused on most of my bots. It will handle the four servos, ultrasonic \nsensor and ProMini. Any more servos and it\u2019s too much though. An EZ \nBotics ultrasonic single unit sensor is used in the pupil but I haven\u2019t \nactually hooked it up yet. I\u2019ve had the sensor for years now so hope it \nwill works.\n
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The Fitting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The biggest challenge is getting all to fit in that little round \nhead. I thought Sir Robert\/BoB was a challenge but this guy is even \nsmaller brained and challenging. A 680MaH 9v battery will fit in there \nthough so that is the plan for power. Obviously he is not going to be \nrunning around all day but should be good for a few minutes of fun. You \ncan see the perf board mounted at the top of the head and the RGB LEDs \nplugged into the ProMini undershield and pointed towards the front of \nthe eye. They show through the whites in the eyeball allowing for some \n\u201cmood\u201d displays with the different colors.\n
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Turn Him on and Power Him Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I needed a power switch and programming port on the outside \nsomewhere and decided to use my standard header connection I use on the \nother bots to make sure it\u2019s easier to reprogram. It’s just a four pin \nheader with ground, Power, TX and RX pins but is the same as the pro \nmini pin layout.\n\n
Switching him on is a bit different. I put a toggle switch on the \nbottom and REALLY thought about put the switch up front so you could \nflip it UP to turn him on and down for off but ended up chickening out \nand putting on the back side. Now it\u2019s his tail instead of\u2026 well, I\u2019ll \nleave it at that.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Really the next step is to take my TED code and change it up a bit to use the sensors on EYER. Just never did that as I bounced off to other hobbies. As such he won\u2019t be anything special but he should be a lot more durable than TED and NED are which are easily damaged.
Will update here as time allows.
– Stephen <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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