My current EZ-Robot project is called "AnnaDroid".
(on my web site: http://www.robots-and-androids.com/annidroid.html)
Anna will be a life-size humanoid / android (not the phone OS silly!) kind of 'bot.
She is being made from a face casting of my friend Annika Skywalker, and a modified Wowwee Alive Elvis Presley robot, and a plastic mannequin body.
I am using the ARC for her software.
Working: eyes blink "alive" random movements touch sensors jaw in sync with text-to-speech (used the analog in to read the voltage of the sound coming from the computer's headphone jack and then triggered a servo.) A large number of speech recognition Qs & As. face tracking and following with head and eyes. head nod head turn ALICE chatbot software. It's SOOO cool having Annidroid being able to answer ANY question!
Partially Working: Kinect person count Kinect x,y,z location of a person's head. Kinect voice location
Not yet Working: arms/hands/locomotion
Planned: hand grasping shoulder and elbow control embedding a camera in the Elvis' eye (right now the camera is on a hat!)
There are a few pictures here, but fully documentation and photos (lots and lots of them) are on my web site.
MORE TO COME!
Other robots from Synthiam community
Jeremie's Treat-O-Matic 2020
Hoolagen1's Update To My Wall-E
go to supercircuits.com ,they are analog output types ,but just need a video adapter .75 by .75 camera fits great in a 1" eye
cheap servos can turn any motor in to homebrew servo,with just using the pcb and if need more power add a second h-bridge or higher current h-bridge FUTUBA S3003 is the best one so far many there is a circuit for it and super easy to modify it glad THOMAS that servo idea work for you,i remember i told you a long time ago it was the best way to goo project getting good
I tell you what would be easier Thomas. I saw some foam heads over at Hobby Lobby. They looked almost like this woman. Just pour rubber over them. They were $10. You don't have to worry about breathing, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and incovenience to the model. The foam head can hold it's breath indefinately.
Mel
That is awesome...... I can't wait to see her in action.
Ummmm... I am not sure, I have not seen a pic of you. I am from the Bay Area. I have visited LA. I have a friend that used to live down there.
OK. Perhaps not. But I did live in the bay area for 15 years.
Picture of me on you tube:
http://youtu.be/rq69ee1szew
AMAZING!!! I love your robot!! or Humanoid.. I DONT KNOW haha! 3D printer? Amazing!! congratulations! mmm... Maybe in one year I will live in LA...you live there, dont you? jaja would be very exciting to know your android in person....
Good luck! I think that all of this comunity want to watch a video..
THanks. You have a cool robot too!!!
Thomas,
I don't think we have met. What part of the Bay did you live in? I have been in California for 25 years. Originally from Maryland.
If you find yourself in the Bay Area you should definitely let me know. If I find myself in your neck of the woods I will hit you up. I'd love to see Melvis in person.
Is that your daughter in the video?
Samantha