Sbot's Brain Raspberry Pi B+ Robot
My original idea for Sbots processing was one of the linux boxes upstairs in my office I have a lot of bright ideas for Sbots purpose Originally I wanted to put up a few security cameras in the common living areas of my house but the other people that live with me did not agree I hooked up one camera in the kitchen only to find it later that day uplugged So I had to find a compromise to appease others that I live with So I thought I could build a robot and put the camera on the robot Then the robot could be a security sentry that can move from room to room Then it can use infrared to see without any lights Then I can have it do background subtraction to detect movement Ohh I can also use openCV to use facial detection to see if theres actually people around maybe talk to them Wait Why not use facial recognition to familiarize itself with people who live and visit my house frequently and maybe toss them a hello or Konnichiwa Domo Arigato using the persons nameAs you can see the processing power of a small controller board can be used up with just thinking of ideas from one small piece of the robots potential capabilities I hadnt even thought of the math and processing involved to actually move the robot around Since I went from zero to 100 with my ideas in one sitting I realized Id need
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Sbot's Body
Since Im building this robot on a ghost of a budget I need to keep things as cheap as possible I wanted to use something sturdy could handle some knocking around and could have some sort of shelving system that I can put all my stuffs in I had an original idea when I found one of those old VCR tape holders thats like a tower shaped When I found it at goodwill get used to that Ive gotten most about everything on halfprice day at the goodwill it seemed pretty strong and I could put the 7 monitor on one side and shove electronics in the VCR tape slots However I tried to figure out how I was going to cut into the plastic but found it was way too brittle and would suckI gave up on that idea and while getting a drink of water I thought a water cooler would be just about perfect for my project They are usually either metal or think plastic and have shelves in them I had to wait a while but found a water cooler at goodwill As you can see its pretty old but itll work great This cooler in particular came with a small nonrefrigerated area with a door on the front I figure theres going to be a good amount of mechanics in the bottom so I could not keep the container part of it But I can use the door to get to those mechanics and other items
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