Mac
Hello everyone, I'm working on a robotic sculpture called "iRobot: Prick me, do I not bleed?" It's part of my series "The Classics" http://studio407.net/recent_work.htm
The robotics are pretty simple, the head/nook/face uses face tracking with the camera and servo and eventually I will have the torso swivel to face the viewer and I will implement speech.
But my issue is, seeing as it may end up in an art exhibition or two, I would like the sculpture to be autonomous. The "plan" was to have an android tablet installed in the support pedestal running a custom mobile app. But, am I understanding that the mobile app would be an adjunct to the PC running ARC and not the main processing unit? In other words, will I still need a laptop running windows and ARC communicating with the EZb v4 along with the app?
If this is the case, would, say, a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (i5 processor) have the ability to run ARC, be installed in the pedestal, and make the sculpture autonomous?
I have an "in" with Barnes and Noble (my wife is the store manager, lol) so I could get an extremely good price on Galaxy Tab S2 Nook which has an octocore processor but ARC for the PC won't run on the Android, true?
This is my first post. I love that DJ had the foresight and vision to take all the scattered C++, Arduino, and Processor code and package it in an easy to use graphical interface.
Many thanks, -Mac
Mac, that's a real neat project
To answer your question about the ARC project on mobile: Yes. All mobile projects are created in ARC PC first. Then saved to the EZ-Cloud, and finally loaded on the mobile device.
Once you have it working on the PC, simply add a Mobile Interface to the project, add the camera, follow the steps above to save the project and voila!
Young at heart, maybe! I've been waist deep in regular expression parsing for EZ-Script over the last 48 hours. No rest until science fiction becomes our reality with robots mingling with society!
@Dave "Do you know NetFlix is going to to a reboot of the show in 2018? They already have most of the actors signed on. Can't wait. "
OMG OMG OMG! That's awesome! Is Billy Mumy involved? I know he'd been wanting to do this for a long time but Irwin Allen wouldn't hear of it. I thought the movie was pretty good for a cheasy scifi with very little horror. I was disappointed when they didn't make another.
But just for the record, Star Trek comes first. It has since I was something like 7 years old. After watching all 3 LIS seasons a couple of times, it was easy to work and not have to pay close attention to the screen. It also made me feel like I wasn't all alone while putting in the bazillion hours working on the car.
Thanks DJ. Last question of the night: I found the minimum system requirements for the PC (i5) but how about for a tablet? I know my quad-core PC (laptop) starts dropping frames after a few minutes of running the camera.
Update: I got the mobile app working. Unbeknownst to me, I had it all there the first time I tried. I just didn't upload it because I thought I didn't have the controls. So yes, verified, write the program in Builder, add the Mobile Interface with the same gizmos, upload to the cloud. And as DJ says; voila!
My current Nook tablet is a bit too slow but I think the octocore should do the trick.
I'll update sculpture progress as it happens. My big challenge right now is getting this spine cast so it sits flat on the table/pedestal, houses the servo without in moving off-center, and holding the cell phones nice and tight.
I'm also trying to decide if I want to mount the EZ-b v4 on the back of the head/face Nook with or without the white housing. I'm leaning towards without.
Thank everyone. Have a good weekend. -Mac
Oh, almost forgot, here's a link to the first motion tracking attempt.
Thank goodness you found ez-robot
Very interesting stuff. When I was in college, I had a physics lab teacher who was an ary student. All her art was nased on science, and she always tried to show the beauty, or at least asthetic principles in the physics experiments we were performing. I think she would have loved this.
Alan
@ DJ Agreed!
@guru When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist (whatever that meant) but I couldn't do the math, lol. My early artwork used a lot of Van De Graaf generators and Whimshurst machines. It was....honestly, kind of bad. But it was fun to make
Hi Mac, great looking project! I'm wondering how the face tracking will respond when there are (as there surely will be) multiple faces peering at your work simultaneously?