B9 On board Computer and Smart Switch Demo

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

dude that is slick as snot awesome

[@bryandraughn9830]

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

[@captainrick9379]

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 ! 😎👍

[@DavidSchulpius]

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.

[@corsairsmitty9691]

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.

[@DavidSchulpius]

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).

[@corsairsmitty9691]

@@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.

[@mariokuczyk7992]

I love Synthiam arc ,its like the best robotics Software

[@timwendt6186]

Very enjoyable video. I couldn't wait until tomorrow. Awesome to think we actually met the big guy in person many moons ago.

[@DavidSchulpius]

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.

[@ejm2000you]

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.

[@EDP1]

its always a plesure to see this robot .

[@DavidSchulpius]

Thanks brother, I appreciate it.

[@richardsensabaugh1312]

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".

[@DavidSchulpius]

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!

[@TonyEllisUK]

Amazing Robot - great work Dave!

[@DavidSchulpius]

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.

[@TonyEllisUK]

@@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!

[@DavidSchulpius]

@@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.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

I came for the awesome robot. I stayed for the sweet dog.

[@DavidSchulpius]

Aww, thanks. Skye's a sweetheart. She loves hanging with me in the robot lab.

[@PhG1961]

Indeed I enjoyed the video! Very impressive!

[@DavidSchulpius]

Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@PhG1961]

@@DavidSchulpius Indeed! Since many years... I was a very early adapter of the EZ-B!

[@DavidSchulpius]

@@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.

[@PhG1961]

@@DavidSchulpius Indeed, EZ-B and later Synthiam was/is revolutionary and has flattend the path for many robot beginners. A real game changer!

[@guillermoospina6212]

Impresionante trabajo!!

[@DavidSchulpius]

¡Gracias! Eso significa mucho para mí.

[@sideburn]

“All my circuits are functioning perfectly” - HAL

[@daves4026]

This looks like a danger will Robinson robot

[@samuel_towle]

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.

[@DavidSchulpius]

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

[@Ratteler]

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.

[@Ducerobot]

Cool 😁👍🤖

[@madbradfreeman]

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!

[@DavidSchulpius]

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.

[@madbradfreeman]

@@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!

[@DavidSchulpius]

@@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.