The Robot: A Body, Sensors and Good Progress | Linux Today

The Robot: A Body, Sensors and Good Progress

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 15, 2008

[ Thanks to Adam
Palmer
for this link. ]

“Ok, ‘professionally’ the body’s a mess however for my
zero experience in that kind of work, I’m reasonably happy. This is
the front of it, top is a mounted webcam, to the left of that is a
phidgets temperature sensor and top right is a phidgets light
sensor. I am waiting to add 8 colored status LEDs around a small
flat panel 5v stereo speaker as a ‘mouth’ (I got it from a Nokia
phone bundle).

“Two very small stereo mics will be added to the left and right
side of the top back plate. At the far top is a phdgets distance
sensor, and the same on the back side. Above is also the head in a
little more detail – remember it’s waiting for LEDs, mics and a
flat panel speaker to be added! As the plastic plate was likely to
fall off at some point I reinforced it with two of those right
angle thingys.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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