Andy Roid
USA
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Tablet Face
Many robots are built with installed tablets. Often the tablet is in a head. I was wondering if anyone has seen or could build a face that could be displayed on the screen. I have seen this idea around.
It consists of the basic face features eye brows, eyes and a mouth only. These features are able to move to show expression. Has anyone seen this feature or messed with one? Is it possible to build?
Ron R
Edit: The idea is like ROMO. I want only the face which could be run by an EZB.
DJ possible?
Rafiki does have multiple faces. It will be one of its plugins. They aren't animated but switch based on the condition. The jpg images can be replaced with other faces if someone wants to do this.
Use the Video Player, that is what it was created for. There is an example in the examples folder...
Open ARC
select OPEN from file menu
Navigate to Examples -> EZ-Script Examples
Load Video Player project
Run the script
Also - if you decide to make a plugin, check the Display Popup plugin source code. From that, it would be very easy to modify and display a stretched jpeg/png image. It can be specified via ControlCommand() easily
I can't seem to find it - but there was a robot in the forum that this was created for a few years ago. The robot had facial expressions that were video files...
To do that you need your robot to have the computer onboard. I was thinking more of using a smartphone or tablet for the display over wi-fi.
You could have Interface builder do this:
I would be happy to help with the art work.
Hello to @proteusy and All others interested,
Help me understand this more. I went to the video player tool and realize a file can be called and played. I want to now know how to build the animated face. My first example would be a face looking straight at you. The next face would be the same but the eyes blink, next look left, etc. I assume this would be a bunch of short video clips which would be scripted together, and called on as needed.
I guess my question now is does anyone know where software is that I can use to develop this face? I like the face @proteusy posted and want to build something on this idea.
Ron R
Because I have a limited knowledge, I was wondering and looking at a Bluetooth dongle for my computer which would connect to a tablet. Could it work?
Ron R
@proteusy,
How does it work with the interface builder? I would like to see a simple example if you could make one.
Ron R
@ANDY Like I said earlier you could try a flash building program like swish...very easy to use.
You could make your images on photoshop or even paint and edit your reaction together using a video editing tool, an easy one like windows movie maker or something like that, then export it as a .avi file