I'm still not sure what to name this robot. I'm was thinking Sunny, but now I'm thinking about naming him Reese. Reese was the name of my prototype robot co-developed with help from Doug Dooley from Pixar. Reese was designed to interact with child who have autism. But since the I never got anyone from the autism community interested in the AI software or robot, I decided to dissect Reese for parts.
This robot had a pan/til server controlled head. The head is constructed from two inexpensive flash light shells. A USB web camera sits in one flash light for an eye. The flash light shell holds a compound eye with a PING sonar module and a CdS photo cell.
The body is made up of "Dollar Tree" parts including plastic storage cubes and child sized robot toy costume parts including a chest peice on the front and two arm covers attached to the sides.
On the right side the robot has a Budget Robotics designed servo gripper, which was taken from the original Reese robot. The left side has a servo to tilt up and down a set of laser pointers that will be used for vision assistance and game play.
The base is constructed from black styrofoam board and two continuous rotation servos from Parallax, Inc. The servers are mounted with server mounts from Budget Robotics and the wheels came from Budget Robots. The "X" wheels look a little nicer and are bigger than standard plastic servo wheels. There are also two caster wheels in the back for balance.
The back of the robot is designed to accept a mountable controller module to make it easier for me to make modifications to the robot.
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