/pia-the-robot

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"# pia-the-robot"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRn4ZjMaChU

This project was inspired by the youtube intereview between Pixar's Alonso Martinez and Sean with 'Tested'.

Since I thought this was such a cool project, I decided to design my own and gather as much information from the video as I could.

The little robot is head consists of

  1. Two 3D printed concentric sphere shells using PLA plastic.
  2. 3 small servos ($6.00 each)
  3. 3D printed gimble system
  4. A raspberry pi 3 (or Pi zero) and camera ($35 + $30)
  5. Adafruit's 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver ($15)
  6. Adafruit's Circuit Playground Express (because it has a lot of sensors, NeoPixels, speaker, sound sensor, light sensor, termistor (Temperature sensor), Motion Sensor, Infrared receiver/transmittor) and more on a 2" cicular board for $25.00

Included in this project are:

  1. The complete Trimble SketchUp model I designed
  2. The STL generated from the SketchUp model for printing on a 3D printer
  3. The python and Circuit Python code that was written to run on the raspberry pi and Circuit Playground Express.
    • Diagrams how to wire this up.
    • A drive image (*.img) containing the latest raspbian OS, all installed dependencies including OpenCV used for the image/face recongnition.
  • Not ready yet.