I would like to see your ROB act as a traditional ROB, except with *much* faster movement and gameplay with his games. If possible, I'd like him to be able to do this with his projector, not requiring a CRT... though I grant that this may require some very difficult hacking. I'd also like to see your ROB be able to react to various NES games with his arms and body. Let him cheer your successes and sulk at your failures.
If we'd seen _anything_ like that, that would have been genuinely impressive. Even just making him work with modern screens would have be good. But this throws out R.O.B.'s original autonomy, limited though it was, entirely.
Hello, not to take from this (amazing project)…I am also a ROB modifier and had some different goals, but one was solving the gyromite issue on modern screens. It can be done, best by circumventing the flashing requirements and instead relying on user input that ROB can understand. You can find it on my channel but again not trying to divert, just love the innovation and keeping this guy going.
Yes, I would've liked to see his ability to respond to screen inputs: re-mapped to his button function, but also for him to be trainable, and have intuitive ai which plays two player games with you like Mar-I/0
this is great,.. if you could add a base with (remote) controlled wheels "ROB come here !!" And out comes your 33 year old "Family Computer Robot". Ready to play games like he never played games before.
Excellent, this is what I like to see on this channel. You don't waste the time on tutorials about how to use tools and software, you just quickly describe the working principles. That's all I need to get inspired. Great work!
So cool to see and old robot bought up to date and useable again. I have a ROB in the RobotHut and 1 I think in my robot junk parts bin. May have to try a mods myself. Thanks for posting !
He _didn't_ bring him up to date. This R.O.B. can't actually do what the original did at all anymore, at least judging by this video. Instead of him responding to the game on his own, you have to tell him to hit the buttons yourself.
This is the kind of rebuild for ROB for a Long time! I always imagined a ROB that functions a bit like the one from smash bros with mobility maybe with wheels under the base, and maybe a laser pointer in the eyes, very fantastical I know. Anyway, Very Cool build!
This is AMAZING! I was looking to buy a ROB to rebuild with a PI maybe make him faster, add more usage to his arms, and probably mount him on a some motors for mobility. But I found a free Radio Shack Robie SR that I saved from recycling, he already has mobility and is WAY larger so I can cram the whole projector in his head plus maybe a few other functions into the body. Like some servos to move his arms, new functional hands, and a camera for video.
would be so cool if you could make R.O.B. a real moving robot like he was on Super smash bros brawl , like moving around with wheels underneath his body,laser pointer as his "weapon" and of course with spinner thingy.Would be neat to see this little fellow move around and pick up things
I'm truly sorry, it was'nt until after i liked your video that i realised the number shifted from 666 to 667, please, don't be upset, i know i was, so that should be enough for the 666 that liked before me. also, you had me from start to finish in awe of the talent and skill you have at your disposal, i would never evening think of something like this, but your process fills me with passion and confidence, i shall rebuild it!
it would have been cool if you added the ability to run prerecorded tas input files with rob using voice commands so he could become tasbot 2.0 that would be awsome!
the most exciting day of my childhood might have getting a r.o.b. nes for my bday. it became sort of a let down too though :( it should have talked moved around and been able to play any game as a second player. if it were redone in the upcoming years it could be a totally better thing. it could have superior AI say on the level of cleverbot at least.. talking and responding would be a must. tank treads on its underside would do well to make him move around. without changing the aesthetics too much it could have some sort of ability to hold a controller and push a few buttons. it would be great because i used to love 2 player games as a kid and i can play single player ones sometimes now im older but if r.o.b. were improved it could be a massively helpful thing. alsi i would like it if he could clean up little messes for me. and simple chores like changing the cat litter lol.. sth tells me the tech phobic world we live in is mostly the reason we cant have our own r.o.b.b that does all that. well cost too. nintendo will hopefully one day make a truly great r.o.b. thats truly helpful so that nearly everyone wants one.
This is one of the best projects I've seen in a long while. It's cool to see this kind of engineering approach. Hopefully this project will see an update video one day.
I'm not exactly impressed, myself. Instead of restoring or improving on R.O.B.'s original independent functionality, it discards it entirely, turning him into nothing but a puppet the player has to control themselves.
I was kind of hoping you would update the shoulder and arm motors to be faster maybe, but this was pretty fantastic! I could see Nintendo selling something like this
Also, if you want him to make any noises for when you give him a command, I would recommend ripping some files from Super Smash Bros, because they actually give ROB a funny lil' chiptune voice that would be perfect for this project
It would be even cooler if he could actually respond on his own like he originally did. This R.O.B. isn't even the limited automaton a stock one is, he's nothing but a voice-activated puppet.
if you can get the camera in and find a low enough footprint trainable bot i imagine you could skip voice recognition and have him instead identify what's on the screen and respond to that, reducing a good chunk of delay and mistakes
There's a point in this video where he finally acknowledges that what he's done is downright amazing :D up to that point it's like "I brushed my teeth, did an amazing thing, then another amazing thing then I went sleep again as you do"
No, now R.O.B. is a glorified shell for a voice-control system who doesn't so much as mime a button-press or take any gameplay action on his own like he originally did.
Gyromite was so frustrating. Glad to see 40 years of technological improvement has made it close to playable. If you want the true Gyromite experience you have to have him only hold the button for so long. You could have Rob do a little celebration when he gets you killed. It could be triggered when he hears you yell Rob no!
1. 35 years, not 40. And oly 33 at the time of recording. 2. _What_ technological improvement? All he's *really* doing is hitting the buttons on Controller 2 himself, which you could do just fine back when the game was new; you just had to use your hand or foot instead of your voice. It's not like he made R.O.B. able to grab, spin up, and place the gyros faster! _That_ would be technological improvement. Instead, R.O.B. no longer responds autonomously at all or even pretends to.
R.O.B. should get a treaded vehicle that he can sit atop to make him mobile. Voice commands like "ROB - GO FORWARD" and "ROB - TURN LEFT" should control the treads. Two Servos, 3-d printed body, treads made from o-ring belts or the like. Include a battery to power R.O.B. inside the enclosure that connects to the DC jack and he's rollin'!
Not speaking ill of Ben, as he inspired me in his own way, but I'm loving the direction this channel is going. Ben got repetitive. It was a game of "How many different consoles can we make portable". Loving these new videos. Fresh talent and fresh ideas.
Does anyone know what that UV box is called? I googled “UV light box” and only found nail salon stuff. I’m looking for one for myself for the same purpose .
