Jeremy The Butler Bot

After sitting in my attic collecting dust for over 2 years, it is time.....

The British Butler has been out of work for too long.....

My dream of having a personalized butler must come true!

To get the project running once again, I've decided to enter the project into the 2017 Hackaday prize. Unfortunately i was too late to enter Jeremy into the 'Wheels, wings, and walkers' challenge which would have fitted perfectly. 

The main issue that i last had was developing the navigation control. Originally i was going to use an adafruit Flora colour sensor combined with ultrasonic sensors to navigate from point A (my kitchen table) to point B (the couch). This would have required me to have put down some tape or colour on the floor and trace out the path that Jeremy would have to take. This most likely would not have worked too effectively and therefore I abandoned the idea.

I will need to re-evaluate my navigation techniques, possibly by using radar or an xbox kinect sensor. 

Sorry for the long wait, school and other commitments have filled my time up and I had no time to work on Jeremy, but Jeremy is back! His drive system was recently installed and tested, the wheels work great and the torque from the motors are just right. One little problem is that Jeremy's left and right turns are a little too wide for my liking, but besides that he drives fantastically. Jeremy is also fitted with two roller balls on his front end allowing him to pivot on the spot. The next step is to automate his movements and install his sensory components.

Jeremy's main motors, sensors and mounting parts have arrived, I'm still waiting for the scooter wheels to get back in stock, but in the meantime there is lots of hardware initialization that must be done

This isn't much of an update (since I had already programmed this before I made this page) but I thought I should share Jeremy's voice, hope you enjoy ;)