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After several months on the to-do list, I finally cleaned up the Robotic Arm Project code a bit to improve my robotic arm's functionality and performance.
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A few months ago a fellow member of MTRAS posted on our Facebook page a link to a robotic arm project. The article poster / builder used a design that was previously posted as open source to Thingiverse.com. I took a look and thought that it would make a fun project that would be simple enough to follow but also challenging enough to be rewarding. So I decided to give it a shot.
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Omnibot Modernization
As a kid I dreamed of getting one of the Omnibots from RadioShack! Each Christmas and birthday I would beg and bargain for one but to no avail. They were too expensive for a toy, my parents would say. I dreamed of "programming" it to do all kinds of things little knowing that my parents were right. As cool as they were, Omnibots just weren't as useful as the advertising and my imagination made them.
Over the course of this series of builds for "version 1" I hope to turn my Omnibot into the bot I thought it was when I was a kid. I want to keep the original functionality but bring it into the modern era. So here's my punchlist:
- Moveable arms (motorized upgrade)
- Expressive "Eyes"
- Omnidirectional movement
- Status and time display
- Record movement with playback
- Record audio and playback
- Walkie-talkie function
- Full Featured remote control with motor and arm directional control, "eye" expression control, PTT, record movement mode select, and preset playback