Wowee wolf mod

Warning light weight side diversion. One night half asleep I decided to shop on eBay and purchased a Wowee wolf that was sold as broken; so, I bought it for to much money. The next day during the day I remember and cursed myself. It arrived today and I promptly skinned it.

Naked Wolf

So the seller speculated it was the switch that was the reason it was broken. As usual the battery box had acquired as case of AA herpes.

No AA wants to kiss that spring

Bypass the battery box.

The switch was not defective. Unfortunately I broke it trying to separate it from the plastic.

The power and switch are now wired to a 4 pin female IDC connector. Power it up with 4.5 volts from a DC wall adapter.

Amazing what you can do with two switches, cams, linkages and a single DC motor. Wowee genuis for sure.

MCUs Unite!

Both the EZ-B v4 and the Arduino Mega are excellent platforms for developing robots. Why not use both in the same project. A simple way to utilize both systems is the serial protocol. Check this link: http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/Thread?threadId=6577

http://www.ez-robot.com/User/luis-vazquez/Profile/ Luis Vazques is da man! Thanks dude.

Building bridges is what it is all about. More to come for sure.

Best Friends Forever

Robotic Rat Nest Madnes

This is the rats nest. It can piss me off in less then a minute and is fraught with blue spoke genies. I have removed some of the spiral wrap which did bring some organization the the mess . I will be adding more sensors in the next few weeks and that means more wires. I have been planning on moving to ribbon cables for the signal wires to lift my foot off the gas pedal of robotic rat nest madness.

Omnibot 2000 Wheel Encoders

Used for approximating distance traveled and angle turned. I am currently writing EZ-Builder movement scripts. Hall sensors were purchased from Shenzhen, ur um, eBay for about 2 USD. 3mm Neodymium magnets from eBay as well for a few dollars. Inne ring was printed on a Printrbot Jr v2.

Unfortunately they light up amber when powered.

Magnetic Wheel Encoder. 8 Steps at 45 degree increments.

Moving the Gearbox Forward

Initially work was mostly sporadic and consisted entirely of hardware design and development. Initial design was a very iterative process requiring a lot of rework as I discovered a better design. At times I found this frustrating yet often would calm myself reminding me that I had never undertaken such a complex engineering project.
Now that the bot is inside the Omnibot 2000 shell, goals have to be approached in a more efficient and concise manner. Order of general development is as follows. Weekend work is for new new developments. Such as fixing existing hardware issue and implementing new hardware modifications. During the week days, when time is more constrained, development is mostly software based. Development and grooming within EZ-Builder that consists of analyzing existing issues and writing new code.

A new EZ-Builder script development journal is being created at 55gears.com