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Little Johnny
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Cost: ~$900
Time to Build: lots :-)
Little Johnny was inspired by the movie Short Circuit, I built him as a robot that could go with me to schools and demo's to get the attention of those I speak to. Johnny is capable of speech, body heat sensory, compass guided navagation, three degree's of freedom in each arm, bending his body and tilting his head.
Components:
- Main Processor unit: MIT's Handyboard.
- Locamotion: Power Horse toy tractor treads.
- Arm Movments: Hobby Servo's.
- Vision: Hamamatsu Pyroelectric sensors.
- Speech: SP0256 speech synthisis.
- Obsticle Aviodance: 3 Sharp GP2D12 Analog IR Rangers, 1 Polaroid sonar module, 2 bump switches.
- Programming Language: Interactive C.
- Power: 9.6v 1100mAh NiCad Battery pack.
Recent comments
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27 weeks 4 days ago - Hi,
Nice design, very
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Comments
I really like this one! Great
I really like this one! Great Job! Keep up the Fantastic work.