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Animated Faces For For Robot Characters
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I've been thinking about designs for a robot, the kind with animated faces on flat panels. I'd like to be able to call up animations I create like seamless avis or mov.s (without a frame) to display animations I create. Or maybe they are GIFs? But these animations should be able to be called by scripts, maybe even reactive to voice synthesis etc. or eyes that follow you using the camera?!
Example:
I think they promised to deliver for a price that was too low to actually produce it...offering promises they could not deliver on.
Yup - the fate of all robot companies that attempt to own the full-stack. It is an ego decision vs a business decision. Too many people focus on the robotics problem, not the business proposition.
RIP: Baxter, Jibo, Mayfield, Anki, Reach, (misty is next), etc...
There aren't enough programmers in the world to sustain and scale businesses requiring such a high level of experience/knowledge for hiring.
All consumer-facing products, software, support, and UI migrate to Windows for the reason stated above. This also applies to support staff scaling requirements for businesses.
The only place where the engineering ego receives attention is in academics. Businesses focus on the highest percentage of TAM revenue while maintaining the lowest operating cost to support new product development, growth, and market fluctuations. This is why all of the robot companies keep going out of business because they're founded and operated by engineers.
I think your easiest solution for having an animated face that moves with tracking and allows customization is to build a unity project that connects to ARC. That way you can customize it yourself.
Hi fxrtst,
I have the https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087LNFZ2T/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
will try with my Arduino when I get home
EzAng
I did animated eyes for ZOE, the animations can be triggered by UART or USB Serial...works with ARC! But its OLEDs so this might not be what you are looking for?
https://github.com/SwannSchilling/ItsyBitsy_M4_Oled_Eyes
Yeah I'm not looking to trigger a few leds or light up small oled displays....I want the whole screen (face) to be a 24 bit color screen. Then animations can be created easily in a paint program (frames) and displayed. Animations could be individual frames, or animated clips, GIF frames.....the type of frames is irrelevant, its about how to get them to display over ARC like the interface builder can do.
The interface builder is for interacting with buttons and joysticks and controls from a user. It may be confusing for new viewers or historical reference if Interface Builder is referenced for this. It's best to refer to itself as what it is. A full-screen video player
This is a robot skill that can play videos full screen: https://synthiam.com/Support/Skills/User-Interface/Full-Screen-Video-Player?id=20421