Lt. Commander Data's child "Lal" My latest project which is powered by a EZB4, is a re-creation of Lt. Commander Data's android daughter Lal. It is based on Star Trek, The Next Generation, season 3:16 "The Offspring". She is intended to be a Humanoid house robot with less degrees of freedom movement from my previous robot Captain AnnDroid. I wanted to keep her her low maintenace, basic, and dependable. She is about 4 ft. tall and weighs about 13 lbs. " After new a servo addition" Lal's head utilizes 3 HD EZ Robot servos for pan (rotate left and right), tilt (up and down). and head daisy (like a puppy dog). 2 HD EZ Robot servos for arm movement now ( may add an elbow or wrist servo?). IRobot Create V.1 for drive platform. She uses great EZ Robot features like Multi-color camera tracking, and plan to add some type of A.I., like Dave Cochran designed. Special Thanks to EZ Robot and D.J. Sures for providing a great product that lets people pursue their robotic dreams.
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Steve that is awesome! The dress looks really nice on Lal. How about a dramatic video of Lal talking and interacting with Captain Ann Droid? Maybe a skit where Data is missing and the Captain has to enlist Lal to help search for her father by scanning for positronic brain patterns. Be neat to have a mock up of a science station for her to pretend to use......
Oh my ! I have been watching too much Start Trek....
Very cool Steve! That dress fits her perfectly. What size is it?
@rgordon, there is no such thing as "too much" Star Trek
You guys are such Star Trek geeks. Lol. I love it! I'm one too. I've been watching sense first run episodes of season one of the original series. Kirk was my role model growing up. Sadly I was never able to kick butt and get the women like he did. stress
Really sweet work Steve. Nicely done.
rgordon, thanks for the uniform idea. The sleeves will help if I add extra degrees of freedom. I wanted to alter "Lal's" voice a little with reverb (like Star Trek) to distinguish it from "Ann".
Justin, Thank you, The dress size is a womans XS, and is pinned back for now until it is altered smaller.
Thank you also Patrick and Dave. EZ Robots are fun!
"Lal" enjoying her new Starfleet uniform outside. Starfleet debates "Lal"?
@Steve G responded, I'm glad you did pull your phone out. It was a nice little video demo. In regards to light, LED light tape may be bright enough (depending on ambient light of course), but personally I think it would be a mistake. I love lighting, and the illuminated mouth on Captain Ann looks great, because it looks like a robot. Where as Lal has the human look and I'm not a flashing mouth would suit. I could be wrong of course and that's just my opinion. Hey, it might look pretty cool too, so it will be interesting to see which way you go. I guess you could try it with a couple of temporary LEDs to get an idea of what it would look like. Smile
Steve G, I moved the conversation. Thank you for responding, I respect your opinion and agree, that is why I have not done anything yet. After deciding the size limitations not enough room for movement, I had a headphone microphone type device to shine light on her face when she was talking. My wife thought it did not look good. I may try some LED options. Thank You
No problem Steve. I'd hate to see you do something and regret it later. But then, that's what making robots is all about... trial and error.
A thought for some subtle lighting though. Maybe you could accessorise her with a neon/ electroluminescent necklace, or maybe you could fashion a backlit comm badge (although I see she has the insignia printed on her uniform). Just a thought.