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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: RobbieCP1000 on May 20, 2008, 04:36:57 AM

Title: Robby the robot
Post by: RobbieCP1000 on May 20, 2008, 04:36:57 AM

Does anybody know if I can install sensors into my Robby the Robot

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Private reid2 on May 20, 2008, 04:40:09 AM

Robby the robot?
Is that a kit?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: DANNYbot on May 20, 2008, 04:40:28 AM

well, thats a rather vague question. What type of sensors would you want to install on your Robbie?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: RobbieCP1000 on May 20, 2008, 04:43:16 AM

Quote from: DANNYbot on May 20, 2008, 04:40:28 AM

well, thats a rather vague question. What type of sensors would you want to install on your Robbie?

I would like some movement sensors so I can interact with my robby the robbot and so that he can follow me around the house.
He's also good friends with my cat and I would like for him to be able to play with the cat.

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: DANNYbot on May 20, 2008, 04:57:15 AM

sounds lovely...view ther topics for answers maybe? This one seems to be relatively dead

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: paulstreats on May 20, 2008, 04:57:41 AM

do you have any links?

Is it the rooby the robot with a circuit board on top and a small tank like chssis underneath? or is it just a model replica of the televised robbie the robot with motors in the feet?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: RobbieCP1000 on May 20, 2008, 05:25:54 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_the_Robot)

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: DANNYbot on May 20, 2008, 05:26:37 AM

is this the instruction manual?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: RobbieCP1000 on May 20, 2008, 05:27:16 AM

no u blithering baffoon that's the god damn robot

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Private Reid on May 20, 2008, 05:33:16 AM

be nice now...

You Bloody IDIOT  ;D

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: paulstreats on May 20, 2008, 09:03:35 AM

Do yu have any links for the specific model that you have rather than a wiki entry of the robot used on the television. The reason why is because nobody can tell you if you can add sensors unless we know wether it already has an electronics system and also what that system is.

(if it doesnt have any electronics then you can add your own but its ging to be a challenge if you dont have any experience.)

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: RobbieCP1000 on June 02, 2008, 05:22:48 AM

http://www.neatstuff.net/space-robots/Mechanized-Robby-Robot-silver.jpg (http://www.neatstuff.net/space-robots/Mechanized-Robby-Robot-silver.jpg)

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: kf6snj on June 02, 2008, 02:51:48 PM

Looking at it, I have to ask, how tall is it? I ask as I have never seen anything like it before. Providing that it is better than eighteen inches tall, there may be some options. I would also be curious to whether you are using a computer motherboard for this or are you using basic stamp? I ask as it is technical details like these that help to solve such problems.

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: SixRingz on June 02, 2008, 05:40:47 PM

Listen RobbieCP1000, be serious if you want to be part of this forum.

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Private Reid on June 04, 2008, 02:36:07 AM

Yer, SixRingz is right

and also i don't think it possable, it's merely a toy

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Rebelgium on June 04, 2008, 04:45:19 PM

It's just a toy, you can't just glue a servo on it, solder some wires onto it and hope it'll work...

Do some research before you ask a question you blithering baffoon, and if you do ask a question put some effort into it.
Do you assume everybody knows that toy of yours?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Private Reid on June 05, 2008, 02:31:56 AM

well said, well said

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: airman00 on June 05, 2008, 06:16:17 PM

im a bit late into this topic...

we need to know more info robbieCP1000 ! Specs, website links , details man!

also do not call anyone a "baffoon"  or any otehr insult . People here are answering questions for free and do it for fun , so be nice and maybe you'll learn something .

also what is your experience with robotics?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Admin on June 07, 2008, 05:49:27 PM

You can install sensors into anything you want . . . a water bottle for example.

You just need other electronics to process that data, like a microcontroller . . .

Then actuators to use that data . . . like servos . . .

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: Private reid2 on June 07, 2008, 07:22:21 PM

but i thought that toys like that had the little black dot microcontroller? And you can't add to them, right?

Title: Re: Robby the robot
Post by: airman00 on June 07, 2008, 08:36:50 PM

nope you can't use that microcontroller

those microcontrollers are one time programmable and were designed for that application ONLY.