A humanoid talking robot head.
The head listens to you with a microphone, formulates a response, and then replies using speech synthesis while moving its mouth.
Currently, I have PWM working on the beaglebone along with servo control (with a circuit for a high-torque servo), a rudimentary speech synthesizer, speech recognition, the mouth, and a rudimentary chat bot all working!
An example of a much more complex version of what I'm aiming for can be found here. At a minimum, this robot will respond to some speech input, move its mouth a bit, and output some speech output. If I can't build a complex chat bot in time, that's okay with me. I plan to focus on the other three parts more than anything else.
PackagingEverything is placed inside the mask and uses wooden dowels glued together with hot glue to hold it with support.
The base is connected to a thick wooden dowel which has a second platform on its top. On this secondary platform rests the BeagleBone black, and on top of the black is a tiny breadboard with a circuit to control the servo.
The servo is attached to the support structure within the mask whereas all other components are attached to the primary wooden dowel and simply *covered* by the mask. The mask itself (with servo) is completely removable to allow tinkering with the internals.
See it in action here
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