Julianna is almost five and a half pounds. She’s decided she likes the rc kidney care food and the science diet kidney food. This is huge for her since she’s only ever liked rc Persian.
With this we have most of the parts to begin assembling and programming Stabby. We have a backup if things go wrong though hopefully we’ll be able to use both a start building a fleet of Stabbys! OG Stabby will likely remain unedited foever.
These are the current ideas for Stabby the Roomba. Some of his ideas deviate a bit from the original internet concept of Stabby, but his ‘normal’ setting will stay true to that image. However we proudly enjoy looking at something and going ‘but what else can we make it do’ and so Stabby will hopefully be able to do all of the following:
Lights: Fully selectable lights under the outside edge of the Roomba. These would change with the voice options
Mute – Either no light or a nice cool blue or green
Talkative – Blue to White as he runs into things
Pissed – Blue or White progressing to pulsing Red as he hits more and more objects.
Pulsing red like a heartbeat
We may able able to color code the little battery light on top to indicate mode
Control: Remote control using a Wiimote with nun-chuck
Joystick - Speed and direction
Button C - On nun-chuck, Voice without hitting anything
Button Z - On nun-chuck, selects Voice & Lights mode (1, 2, 3 or 4)
Button C+Z - Would make him shake back and forth or spin in a tight circle at high speed
+/- on Wiimote - Volume
Blue Leds on Wiimote -Indicate which mode Stabby is in (1,2,3, or 4)
When Stabby hits something he will stop and turn 45 – 90 degrees. We may want a standard mode when he keeps moving slowly until overridden by the joystick.
Needed parts:
Pi Zero
Arcade Bonnet (to interface bumper sensors)
Two 600 RPM motors and mounts
Two 2.5” skateboard style wheels
Motor controller
4 cell LiPo battery (14.2v)
Audio Amp & Speaker
Strip of side light NeoPixel LED’s or 5 to 6 - 3 watt pixie LED’s.
The idea of Stabby the Space Roomba has been going around Tumblr for a long while, and about two years ago we decided to made this little guy out of a broken 1st Gen Roomba. There won’t be a long post about his creation because it basically consisted of forcefully ripping out the vacuum parts and screwing a rc car on in their place.
We are excited to begin our process of upgrading him to a walking, talking, stabbing, controllable Roomba! Progress updates will be done the same way Wheatley’s were, so stay tuned to hear about Stabby’s progress!
Note: Please don’t use real knives on your Stabbys; that’s dangerous. Real knife is for photo purposes only because we temporarily lost his plastic one.
Achara would like to point out that I did not post HER photo earlier this week when I posted the other two. And she’s everyone’s favorite dog! We call her Roomba as she’s partial to licking the floor but she is a sweet girl. #dogsofinstagram #dogswithjobs #lgd #poultrykeeper #roomba #dogs #akbashmix #imagooddog https://www.instagram.com/p/CNbbvdFnD7V/?igshid=721jcmh1lgrs
