For the Wish-List...I searched

Doron

USA

For the Wish-List...I searched for "emoji for ez-robot" and found little to nothing on that subject. B&W, or Color, for that matter, are not that complicated and are, relatively, inexpensive. I don't believe a mouth is needed since a lot of emotion can be displayed with the dot (look left, right, up, down, cross-eyed, blink inquisitively) , a circle (surprise), a caret (the small up-facing arrow on the "6" key), and the two math signs (< and >). The LED's on the existing 18 RGB LED Block aren't laid out quite advantageously enough to pass for what I was hoping to find. The proposed RGB 8x8 Display color-array may have that same issue. A TTL-LCD unit, sized to display both eyes and fit into the existing LED-Block container would be really cool. I expect an LCD display long enough to display both eyes would have an inefficient cost since most of the crystal would never be employed, so, smaller elements, one for each of JD's eye sockets, fitted to a single PCB sized to fit into JD's head-space would be most efficient. It would take a short jumper strap to connect two LCD together (or print it on the board) but the serial code can be demuxed on the board or send parallel with a ribbon. I'm thinking of the imoji expressions used in the film "MOON"...a wonderful depiction of AI emotions, by the way. To that end, I'd like to see color, for sure...Again, I don't believe the mouth is required to express simple emotions. To make coding simpler, a small library of feelings/expressions similar to those used in the COJI would work and they can be on the PCB in a PIC chip. Three wires could enable four library-labels, and four wires could display nine. Your EZ-software looks so advanced, you'd probably do 16 or 32-expressions without a flinch (add that one too, a flinch). Lastly, if the display was round and fit into JD's eye socket, rather than behind the PVC, that'd be most-cool. I'd gladly pay $40 for the pair of elements and the R&D to put'em on my BOT. Thanx.

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