Omnibot Low Rides

My wife isn't gonna win any awards for shooting video that's for sure. The robot doesn't even have screws holding it together yet. Very rough at this point just got the EZ-B wired into the sensors.

Half a robot

Side tracked into deep adventures writing C Arduino code, 3D printing and learning the hot iron something emerged.

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Github C Arduino Mega Robot Code
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SVG Electronics function drawing
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I started to see more gray hairs. I was reinventing the wheel.

No pearls for me.

Dirt, dust and insect husks...

What's inside the clam shell?

Several months ago I received an Omnibot 2000 from eBay. The eBay listing had indicated the thing was in bad condition as the owner remarked that it did not work and had a broken arm. The robot was cheap and no one was bidding. I had my chance. I swooped in on this bargain and pressed the bid button. Fifty dollars gone and the bot was on it's way to my house. It arrived and I eagerly unboxed it The first thing I noticed was it smelled funny. Perhaps in its glory days, in the eighties, it smoked cigars...or maybe hung out in seedy bars or pool halls...maybe even attended a strip club or two. Well it was out of the box and was immediately getting the screwdriver treatment. After dissembling I realized Omnibots made a great home for mud dubbing wasps. Many of the screw holes were plugged with mummified wasp larva. Inside I even found a hanging wasp's nest and a smallish dried up cockroach.

The robot was busted up bad. It looked like it had survived a cage match with a three year old and just barley won. After the dual it was promptly retired to an old barn on a hill.