Love this!!! Going to retire my Rock Pi and replace with LattePanda or Beelink. Love the direct connections to the EZ-B's . Multiple Wifi connections are so tedious at startup.
@RattelerАй бұрын
This would be awesome if it wasn't for Beelink. Worst support for a product I've ever had. Otherwise, super cool. I'm subscribing.
@mariokuczyk7992Ай бұрын
I love Synthiam arc ,its like the best robotics Software
@samuel_towleАй бұрын
Nice work David. The first video of yours I have seen. Just wondering how many commands the B9 recognizes, and if you thought or have a command to suspend voice input for a period of time. Like "Bubble-headed Booby" for instance.
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thanks for watching my video. I Appreciate your kind words. I don't believe there is a limit to the amount of commands I can have stored for him to listen. I currently have several dozen and keep adding as I think of something. I actually do have a command in there for him to stop listening. I just didn't use it in this video. It does come in handy if I can remember to use it. Lol
@buffalobraves9Ай бұрын
Dave, I want one so bad. If you ever hear of a working one for sale please LMK!!!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
I understand the "need" completely. I'll try to keep you in mind if I see one for sale. Happy hunting. Be careful of Ebay.
@WaltkatАй бұрын
Amazing build. I loved watching Lost in Space as a kid way back when. It would be interesting to update B9's voice recognition using the latest AI technology so that you wouldn't have to be so precise in your verbal commands. Maybe even incorporate sensors such as vision recognition, distance/object recognition so that he can move around a room on his own without bumping into things, etc.
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Great thinking. All those things are on my "someday" list. I've tried a few of them. The only problem is that the sensors needed to do a lot of that stuff are hard to hide so they don't interfere with the original "look" of the robot. Thanks for the interest.
@johnDingoFoxVelocityАй бұрын
dude that is slick as snot awesome
@bryandraughn9830Ай бұрын
So I'm just minding my own business looking for something to watch and the guy says "Here's the robot I've been working on for the last 5 years." Subbed
@corsairsmitty9691Ай бұрын
That is beautiful. A pc inside the robot and the smart power strip, wow. I am programming the arduino development boards for my B9. I currently have 3 of them just in the upper sections, from the collar and above. One controls all the brain and finger lights. One controls the radar motion, and the last one(so far, I need several more) is a master that will handle the PS3 controller for the entire robot. This master controller will pass command to the other sub system, to allow control of all motion, audio, and lighting throughout the entire B9. I am also keeping in mind the “power pack” pull and deactivation. Thank you for the inspiration to do these type of function for B9. Keep up the good work.
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Your setup sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing and your kind words. Are you on our B9 Robot Builders Facebook group? If not please join and share. I decided to go with Synthiam's ARC because I didn't want to learn a completed computer language like what is used in programing Arduino. My respect to yo brother for going that route. (BTW, since then I've learned a bunch of Javascript and converted all my scripts in ARC over. Much better).
@corsairsmitty9691Ай бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius Thank you for the kind words. Yes, I am on the Facebook group, I would like to gets some parts of this working in some fashion before presenting it on Facebook. I want to make sure I can do these things first. I am learning a lot of this arduino programming as I go along. Also realizing that it will take a lot of arduino’s to accomplish this setup. The nice thing about it is one arduino per subsystem.
@AppliedCryogenicsАй бұрын
I came for the awesome robot. I stayed for the sweet dog.
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Aww, thanks. Skye's a sweetheart. She loves hanging with me in the robot lab.
@TonyEllisUKАй бұрын
Amazing Robot - great work Dave!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thanks Tony. It's always an honor to get parse from a talented person like yourself. I hope all is well with you and your family.
@TonyEllisUKАй бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius We are fine here, hope everything is good with you and the family. Your B9 engineering is increadible, its always so great to see your videos, and this is a specially brilliant video that shows the amazing internals!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
@@TonyEllisUK Thanks brother. Glad all is well. You're missed on the Synthiam forum. Things are quiet there now. I saw you dusted off the ALTAIR robot and posted the other day. Now Altair was a cool robot and cutting edge work by you.
@PhG1961Ай бұрын
Indeed I enjoyed the video! Very impressive!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@PhG1961Ай бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius Indeed! Since many years... I was a very early adapter of the EZ-B!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
@@PhG1961 Synthiam and EZ Robot have come a long way since the early days. Best thing to have happened was DJ splitting off from EZ Robot and starting Synthiam. Lots of great things since then.
@PhG1961Ай бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius Indeed, EZ-B and later Synthiam was/is revolutionary and has flattend the path for many robot beginners. A real game changer!
@guillermoospina6212Ай бұрын
Impresionante trabajo!!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
¡Gracias! Eso significa mucho para mí.
@captainrick9379Ай бұрын
Dave that's prefect timing! I was getting ready to send you a message that you are way over due for a video! 🤣 That b9 is an absolute work of art! Keep up the great work and we will be standing by for your next video! Thanks ! 😎👍
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Hi Cap! It's always good to hear from you. I hope you're well. I'm glad you liked my vid. Thanks for the kind words. Hopefully my next video will happen soon. Stay tuned.
@richardsensabaugh1312Ай бұрын
I always enjoy watching these updates. You do a most excellent job. Someday I hope to build one of these myself. I will be sure to use these videos as a guide when I do. Much thanks...P.S. Wish you would have made videos of fixing your pinball machines also. Many of them are on my wish list. I just put a new playfield in a ''High Speed".
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thanks for the kinds words. I'm happy you enjoy my videos. Haha! A fellow pinhead! Repairing and working on pinball machines is my other passion. A playfield swap is nothing to sneeze at. I've done several. I hope your swap went well for you. As far as building a B9, keep the dream alive. If you can do deep work on a pinball machine you can build a B9 with your eyes closed. LOL!
@madbradfreemanАй бұрын
Ironically, you may be able to speed up it's shutdown by turning off "Fast Startup" in Windows. That saves the contents of RAM to your storage device for faster boot. If you're using an SSD {and you should be -- even a SATA one if your SBC can't do NVME) it's really not worth it. Thanks for your videos, you're building the B9 I dreamed of back in the '60s!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Wow, great info. Thanks! This little mini PC does have a 500GB SSD harddrive. I'll look at the fast startup option. But are you saying that if I have a SSD it's not worth turning that option off? I understand wanting this robot for so long. Like you having one that looked and acted like the one from Lost In Space was a childhood dream. So I built one when I was able and found a way.
@madbradfreemanАй бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius No, it's that it doesn't help much if you have speedy storage. You probably won't notice the faster startup, but you will notice it's not having to write 16GB to disk during shutdown!
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
@@madbradfreeman Thanks for the info. Actually I looked into turning Fast Startup off on this computer but I don't have that option. Turns out I need to have Hibernation enabled and I disabled that feature when I first installed this Mini PC. I actually really slimed down Win 10 system and got rid of everything I didn't need. Lots of stuff. I even tried to disable Windows auto update but for some reason it keeps reenabling it's self. Ugh.
@EDP1Ай бұрын
its always a plesure to see this robot .
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thanks brother, I appreciate it.
@timwendt6186Ай бұрын
Very enjoyable video. I couldn't wait until tomorrow. Awesome to think we actually met the big guy in person many moons ago.
@DavidSchulpiusАй бұрын
Thanks Tim. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. It was great meeting you and your bride all those months ago. Years actually. Too bad I was just starting to move my life and home from Wisconsin to Florida. It would have been nice to have a "building buddy" nearby.
@howardrollinsiii59322 ай бұрын
I think that you have done a magnificent job on our sophisticated friend "Robot B9", from the Robinson Family's ill-fated Space excursion thanks to the infamous acts committed by Dr. Zachary Smith. I lost my mechanical friend due to the antics of the unwelcome intruder who invaded my home. The perpetrator or perpetrators, broke into my home lab, & destroyed my Robot B9 working replica. I was corresponding with members such as "Dewey F. Howard" among others of the B9'ers Club. Obtained my robot's bubble headset from the late great "The Robot Man": Fred Barton. When we started back in the late 1980s, we had to figure out how to get much that did not exist to get things the way we wanted them. Much technical innovation of brilliant minds, has come into play in the way of getting the robot to come closer to what "Lost in Space" featured as but a bit of a glimpse of the future so many years ago. I congratulate you on your outstanding accomplishment Mr. Shopeous. It is an honor to learn of what you have achieved. I wish you all the best in the years ahead. I am planning to build my next B9 of the class M3 when I can acquire the necessary funds to do so. Wish me success In my endeavor to do this. God's speed to you & your sir. The Robot was the most fun project I ever worked on. I know that you must feel the same as I do about the Mechanical Marvel of the Robinson expedition. Take care for now. Sincerely, Professor Howard Daniel Rollins III, Inventor & Scientist.
@2150dalek2 ай бұрын
Wow...I want to purchase one...even if it's just the tube.
@DavidSchulpius2 ай бұрын
Thanks for your interest. Sorry, I don't offer these anymore.
@Franciszek642 ай бұрын
Amaizing!!!!
@corsairsmitty54384 ай бұрын
What amplifier did you use for both the voice, mechanical sounds ?
@DavidSchulpius4 ай бұрын
Lepy LP-V9S Hi-Fi Stereo Power Digital Amplifier - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L8O8WK2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@corsairsmitty54384 ай бұрын
@@DavidSchulpius Thank you David. This is Richard Smith
@DavidSchulpius4 ай бұрын
@@corsairsmitty5438 Hi brother! Hop all is well.
@paulgee43364 ай бұрын
You could have used multiple pulleys and made a circuitous route anywhere you needed it to be to be out of the way, like around the inside of the body shell, basically as long as you wanted the "string" to be. And "super-glued" stand out locations on the inside of the body where you needed to attach bolts and such. (probably using a very strong two-part mixed glue that bonds well to fiberglass or whatever) Then no outside showing bolt heads or rivets.
@hgodtx4 ай бұрын
Dang! That is one labor of love!
@DavidSchulpius4 ай бұрын
It certainly is! Thanks for watching and leaving your comment. ❤
@corsairsmitty96914 ай бұрын
How many EZB V4 controllers do you have in the B9, total number ? Do these EZBs talk to each other or do they are work as individuals?
@dman00444 ай бұрын
8:30 On the show,you pull the power pack, he would lean a little and the arms would extend out and down.
@DavidSchulpius4 ай бұрын
Thanks and you're correct. I decided not to do that animation in this version of the robot. Manly because he can't lean forward and his arms are fixed in the straight forward position. However my personal B9 does do this. Look at some of my earlier videos. I show this very cool animation I built into that one.
@corsairsmitty96914 ай бұрын
Dave, Richard Smith here could you send me an email with the design for the arm, including you latest fix. If that is not possible could you put me in touch with the designer of the arm, and I can talk with him myself. Thank you.
@DavidSchulpius4 ай бұрын
I'm sorry Richard, I don't have any plans or parts list for this design. I actually designed it in my head, got most of the parts from servo city and peaced it together.
@fundude25 ай бұрын
Nice job Dave, B9 is looking good. The Sabertooth with the kangaroo are tough items to tame. There are so many little tricks and features to be aware of. I put them away for a while to work with steppers which are much more predictable. Still plan on using kangaroo for many items and have them working well now but there definitely is a learning curve to it.
@retroatx5 ай бұрын
Dave, back in 2019 I had open heart surgery. Whilst recovering, I discovered your original B9 videos and then later, when you received this one to "patch up" I followed your progress. Now and again, I revisit them. I cannot remember at the moment but did you ever publish technical and mechanical data for your arm designs? They were and are very nice work.
@larasworld5 ай бұрын
your B9 has a terminator inside of it, amazing work.
@DavidSchulpius5 ай бұрын
LOL!. Yep. I guess I need to keep an eye on it. Thanks for watching and the kind words.
@edwardpate61285 ай бұрын
With the huge advances in robotics and AI I wonder how long it would take to make a fully autonomous B9 robot.
@gort595 ай бұрын
Wow!
@DavidSchulpius5 ай бұрын
Thanks 😄
@gort595 ай бұрын
Awesome!
@marcianomacedo49406 ай бұрын
Congratulation David. It's amazing.
@glynnetolar44236 ай бұрын
Hate it when demos don't go perfectly. HA HA HA
@richardvernick42806 ай бұрын
Thank you for the demo of B9. Take care.😊
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
Dave, what do you use to "pair" the computer, remote control with the Robots? USB?/Blu-tooth?
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
The lights between the two robots are synchronized!
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks!
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
Is the "Power Pack" in the second Robot?
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
What type of batteries?
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
How many Robot B-9s do you have?
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
Where are Bob May and Dick Tufeld(you have the voice down great!)!
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
He's autographed? I hope Dr. Smith did not program this Robot!
@jackilynpyzocha6626 ай бұрын
Which computer language?
@DavidSchulpius6 ай бұрын
I'm using Synthiam's ARC robot control software. They have a language called EZ Script that I use that's really easy to understand. However I'm currently rewriting all my scripts into Javascript. So much nicer, quicker and smoother..
@dondonelson79086 ай бұрын
Very very cool. Just ordered the robot but much smaller scale!
@DavidSchulpius6 ай бұрын
LOL!. Have fun with you new little friend.
@cgm2li6 ай бұрын
Too bad you can’t incorporate Alexa or Siri to have the robot voice….
@DavidSchulpius6 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, it would be nice to have the function of Alexa and still have the robot's voice answer. There are some builders trying to use AI to do something like this. They're getting close.