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Re: Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

#12

Post by enraged_camel »

tkl wrote: post #3

One robot is in Santa Barbara, California and the other is in La Jolla in San Diego, California at a park somewhere. If you type in the chat box, the robot will say the chat out load.

Crazy. Are you going to write something about how you built it?

Re: Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

#16

Post by rgiuly »

enraged_camel wrote: post #12
tkl wrote: post #3

One robot is in Santa Barbara, California and the other is in La Jolla in San Diego, California at a park somewhere. If you type in the chat box, the robot will say the chat out load.

Crazy. Are you going to write something about how you built it?

Sure, here's a video about how to build one with a Raspberry Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA

Re: Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

#17

Post by rgiuly »

anon4this1 wrote: post #14

any link to details on what parts you use for these bots?

Yes! here's a video that will go over the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA

The main parts are a RaspberryPi, some Adafruit stuff, and a motor from pololu. Also, I put all the parts in a package that you can get here: http://runmyrobot.com/kit

Re: Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

#18

Post by tkl »

anon4this1 wrote: post #14

any link to details on what parts you use for these bots?

Raspberry Pi that runs the python program that sends video to the webserver using ffmpeg. Adafruit Motor HAT to connect the motors to the pi. Android phone is strapped to robot that runs a custom android app that receives chats from the website and also says them out loud using the Android API for text-to-speech. Everything sits on top of a 3d printed chassis. Cheap logitech webcam. Web app is a node server, socketio, ec2.

Re: Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house

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Post by tkl »

rgiuly wrote: post #16
enraged_camel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy. Are you going to write something about how you built it?

Sure, here's a video about how to build one with a Raspberry Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA

Here's a readable summary (also said below):

Raspberry Pi that runs the python program that sends video to the webserver using ffmpeg. Adafruit Motor HAT to connect the motors to the pi. Android phone is strapped to robot that runs a custom android app that receives chats from the website and also says them out loud using the Android API for text-to-speech. Everything sits on top of a 3d printed chassis. Cheap logitech webcam. Web app is a node server, socketio, ec2.

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