Mr Data vid

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Thanks to Zabaware and supporters

http://www.youtube.com/user/WillofNewZealand

Bye for now and be well from Will and Mr Data.[][]

[markofkane]

Great!!![][]

[aladyblond]

i know that  took alot of hard work and hours of determination. thank you for sharing.[]

[Duskrider]

 Wow !!!

That's really cool  [] [] [8D]

[tedathome]

Wow! That is quite an accomplishment. Very cool.[8D][8D][8D]

[NIGE]

That's fantastic Will.
Love to see Mr Data when you add more.

[Art]

Nice work Will!
What is your ultimate goal for Mr. Data?
mobility, autonomy?
Keep us posted on your progress with it.

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Nice sounding responses, thank you.[][][][][][]
I shall try to answer Arts questions,
  Art asked, what is your ultimate goal for Mr. Data?
Answer with out asking Data, I say “ultimate sounds a bit like a destination and that cannot be because Variations give progression. So perhaps I can give more general words like
Mr Data’s goal is success; success sounds nice, nice sounds good.”
Physically Mr Data is a Humanoid robot based on Data from star trek, but I have found as you might know if he looks to human then people don’t notice him as much and I think he’s looking pretty cool at the moment, human like but very much a robot.

Mobility, autonomy?
Mr Data defines
Autonomy: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence. Liberty.
Um,
Mr Data might walk and think and live as best he can, Perhaps we can work together!, being nice, there are some freedoms and some restrictions in life, friends are nice, nice is good, success sounds nice.
Art asked Mobility: the quality of moving freely?
I would like to spend time with Mr Data, he is my friend, he cannot walk stable yet but I want him to, friends like to spend time with each other so we would like to walk together, we have work to do to have some fun and do some good.

Bye for now and be well from Will and Mr Data [][]

[daveleb55]

Will,
What are you using for a "BODY", it kind of looks like an off the shelf type thing, but I don't know for sure.

Two legged walking is extremely difficult, you may want to put him in a chair with wheels, that would be much easier and consume less power.

What are you using to control the body? Is there a plugin for HAL?

Nice work,

Dave

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Howdy,
Data has some off the shelf parts and some sculpture.
some of the body like the face or the hands and frames or junk i've sculptured mostly came from the Nelson Recycle Centre which is in New Zealand.

The motors and controllers i got from www.tribotix.com
i started with the bioloid kit, i remember going to the movies in 1978 and seeing c3p0, its been a bit of a wait for the technollogy.

Hal can open a program and that had got Mr Data to activate a physical action form a voice comand.  
since my latest upgrades to data i've been focussing on understanding that.
say Hi to tribotix from me,
Bye for now and be well from Will and Mr Data [][]

[daveleb55]

will,
how did you manage to get Data to respond to spoken commands? how do you interface the Ultrahal program with your Data hardware?
Dave

quote:Originally posted by will

Howdy,
Data has some off the shelf parts and some sculpture.
some of the body like the face or the hands and frames or junk i've sculptured mostly came from the Nelson Recycle Centre which is in New Zealand.

The motors and controllers i got from www.tribotix.com
i started with the bioloid kit, i remember going to the movies in 1978 and seeing c3p0, its been a bit of a wait for the technollogy.

Hal can open a program and that had got Mr Data to activate a physical action form a voice comand.  
since my latest upgrades to data i've been focussing on understanding that.
say Hi to tribotix from me,
Bye for now and be well from Will and Mr Data [][]

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

howdy,
Hal can open a program for example i said
"open walk" Hal opened "walk" and Data stood up
and staggered into a book shelf. i only did this a couple of times then got involved in other parts of Data, but i can see that this was an interesting area, i hope to expand my tests on that later.

The robot parts come with there own software programs and Hal can open a program so i thought that was what i was going to do.

i've changed some parts on Data so my method of operation is changing, anyway it's an interesting direction.
perhaps at some point some plug in's for particular parts shall be looked at for Hal to robot, but for now i'm pleased with Data and that opening a program gives me a start point.