JD

FANTASTIC HUMANOID ROBOT JD
JD is a fully fantastic functional humanoid robot built with EZ-Bits. His body shape is designed to resemble a human. A humanoid design is functional for many purposes, such as interacting with human tools and environments, for experimental purposes, such as the study of bipedal locomotion, or for other purposes. This humanoid boasts 16 degrees of freedom with his 16 Heavy Duty Servos.

JD has a torso, a head, two arms, and two legs. The head of this robot contains a camera for vision tracking modes, including color, motion, glyphs, QR codes and faces. Each eye has 9 RGB LED's, which can be programmed for a variety of expressions. The included EZ-Builder Software makes it easy to create animations to customize movements.


Introduction
The EZ-Robot JD Humanoid robot kit is a fully functional humanoid robot built with EZ-Bits. This humanoid has 16 degrees of freedom with metal gear heavy duty servo motors. The head of this robot contains a camera for vision tracking modes, including color, motion, glyphs, QR codes and faces. The eyes of this robot have 18 LEDs (9 per eye). Each LED can be configured up to 1 million color combinations. JD includes apps for walking, dancing, and playing the piano. EZ-Builder Software includes an animation GAIT feature called Auto Positioner. This allows you to create movement animations for your robot to walk, dance or give high fives. The animations can be triggered by other input controls, such as Speech Recognition, Vision Tracking, Joysticks, Wii Controllers, and more. Program movements, vision object tracking and interactions with included software. The robot will respond to voice commands and is controlled from your mobile device.

EZ-Robot provides a platform that scales between beginner and advanced users. Users are taught algorithmic logic, electronics, and modular design all while modifying their EZ-Robot into a customised Personal Robot. The excitement of having a personalized robot makes the process rewarding! Includes built-in 3D robot designer, simple 'drag n' drop' controls, 3D printing support and more... Everything you need to change the world!

Minimum Operating System Requirements
Windows 7 minimum
Intel Pentium or AMD 64 or 32 Bit 1 GHz CPU
2 GB RAM
50 MB Drive space

EZ-Builder Software
If hardware is the heart of your EZ-Robot, then software is the soul. Introducing EZ-Builder Robot Control Software. Your robot is controlled by the World's most powerful and scalable robot control software. EZ-Builder takes a productive and unique approach to programming your robot, EZ-Builder uses graphical controls which represent features and functions. Simply add new controls to your robot and enable behaviors such as Camera Tracking, Speech Recognition, Wii Controller, Joystick, GPS, Accelerometer, HTTP Server, GAIT Positioning, and more. JD includes apps that allows him to walk, right away. The EZ-Builder Software includes an amazing GAIT feature called Auto Positioner. This allows you to create frames and actions to animate the servo positions. The actions can be linked to any other control, such as Speech Recognition, Vision Tracking, Joysticks, Wii Controllers, and more.

Mobile
Control your robot from an Android or iOS device, phone or tablet. EZ-Builder Mobile is the world's most versatile and powerful Mobile Robot Application that fits in your pocket. The mobile version of EZ-Builder loads any project that has been created with EZ-Builder for Windows and has been saved to the EZ-Cloud.

Grippers
JD's compact grippers are useful for picking up and holding objects. Powered by strong metal geared servos, these grippers also include a tension mechanism to save servo life.

Movements
This robot can walk with the default included software. Use the included software to modify the default movement animations.

Interactive
The eyes of this robot have 18 LEDs (9 per eye). Each LED can be configured up to 1 million color combinations. The head contains a camera which can track colors, faces, motion, glyphs and more. The compact grippers are powered by strong metal geared servo motors. JD includes apps that allows him to walk, right away. Includes digital heavy duty 15 kg/cm servo motors. The metal gear and ball bearing internals will withstand a high load. The EZ-B v4 is the brain and has two PCB’s sandwiched together in a compact 2x2 inch package. For advanced users, the EZ-B may be removed from its casing and mounted directly in a custom robot. Manufactured by EZ-Robot/Canada. EZ-Robot was founded in 2011 by Roboticist DJ Sures.

Note: When you order JD, it's drop shipped from Shenzen, China. That indicates the JD humanoid kit is manufactured in China and not in Canada.
  • Size: Width 22.9 cm x Length 15.2 cm x Height 31.8 cm
  • Weight: 1.324 kg
  • 1 x EZ-B v4 Wi-Fi Robot Controller
  • 1 x EZ-Builder Control Software with Apps
  • 1 x Humanoid Head with Camera & RGB Eyes
  • 1 x Humanoid Body (includes battery)
  • 6 x Lever Servo-motor
  • 2 x Servo-motor Gripper
  • 1 x Humanoid 2 Servo-motor Foot & Ankle (Left)
  • 1 x Humanoid 2 Servo-motor Foot & Ankle (Right)
  • 1 x LiPo Battery 7.4VDC 1300mAh
  • 1 x LiPo Battery Balancer Charger
  • 2 x Wire Spiral Wrap (6" length)
Camera
The head camera is 640x480 at 20 fps with exposure adjustment. It can live stream video to a mobile device or PC over the WiFi connection, and track objects, colors, faces, motion, glyphs, and QR codes.

Heavy Duty Servos
Includes digital heavy duty 15 kg/cm servo motors. The metal internals will withstand a high load.
Operating speed: 0.24sec/60degree (7.4V)
Stall torque: 15.0kg-cm/529 oz-in.(7.4V)
Temperature Range: -20C to +60C
Operating Voltage: 4.8V to 7.2V
3 pole ferrite
Dual ball bearing
All metal gears
Connector wire length: 32cm
Futaba 3f (25 teeth) for driving spline/shaft
6.2mm spline (including teeth)

With the purchase of the EZ-B includes lifetime firmware upgrades and EZ-Builder Control Software.

3D print your own parts
Dust off your 3D Printer because now it has a purpose - EZ-Bits can be 3D Printed for free!  Build the robot of your dreams with your 3D Printer and EZ-Robot. EZ-Robot's can be 3D Printed directly from the EZ-Builder Software!

EZ-B v4 Features
200MHz 32-Bit Processing (120 MHz 32-bit Cortex M3 ARM Processor & 80 MHz Microchip PIC32)
Small Size (2.1" x 2.2")
WiFi connectivity (Ad-Hoc/Infrastructure/WEP/WPA/WPA2)
Embedded Web Server
Energy Efficient Digital Switching Power Supply
Resettable fuse protection
Reverse polarity protection
1 x Amplified Speaker for Speech and Music
8 x 5 volt tolerant Analog (ADC) ports
24 x 5 volt tolerant Digital ports (servos, PWM, and more)
Up to 73 Servos (combining PWM and Dynamixel)
Dynamixel AX-12 Servo Support
3 x i2c Port
1 x EZ-Robot Video Camera Port
3 x High Speed UART Ports

With extra purchased kits, JD can become a Centaur or other creatures
Summary
Walks Right Away
Interactive
Grippers
Education and Home
Easy-to-use Software
Create Animations
Mobile Support
Vision Tracking
High Tech Brain
Heavy Duty Servo Motor
Behaviors
Intutive
Vision
Software
Minimum Operating System Requirements
Specifications
Heavy Duty Servos Specifications
Dimensions 
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Sources
https://www.ez-robot.com/Shop/AccessoriesDetails.aspx?productNumber=31

Software
https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Easy-Robotics-with-Windows-10-and-EZ-Robot

Maker Review
http://makezine.com/2014/12/09/review-ez-robot-six-and-the-ez-builder-software/ 

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