Bubby update 8-25-10

Function List from Original Safety Sam:

Two drive motor steering: Left, Right, Forward and Reverse all under controllable speed
Right Arm: Up and Down
Right Hand: Closes and Opens
Left Arm: Up and Down
Left Hand: Closes and Opens
Head: Turns Right and Left, Looks Up and Down
Mouth: Opens and Closes to speech
Eyes: Look Left and Right
Eye Lids: Close (both close), Open (both open), Blink (both open and closer), Wink Right Eye (Opens and Closes Right Eye Lid), Wink Left Eye (Opens and Closes Left Eye Lid)

Total Functions: 25

Controls: Wireless via a Robbe Futaba f-14 radio
Voice: Wireless voice transmission via a wireless radio to a sound system in the robot linked to the mouth controls so when there was sound the mouth moved up and down.

Bubby is missing the robbe Futaba f-14 radio and voice transmitter. The good news there is a good radio reciever in Bubby but the bad news is it's not a standard design anymore and it has a multiplexer on it. Replaceing the remote would cost about $785 from Robotronics.

The good news is I talked with Paul George at Robotronics and explained some of the control wires. Every DC motor has a H-bridge PWM control board and an optional POT feedback and the control wires to each unit are black and yellow. With black being the ground and yellow being the PWM signal. It's a nice design and should be reusable.