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RikonV2

Voice command and face detection robot

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Robot powered by a Raspberry pi and an Arduino Mega . he can take voice commands using Julius4 , voice responding using espeak and face detection with OpenCV

It's really amazing what you can do with the different development boards available today. This is my 3rd attempt trying to make an autonomous Robot , well more or less autonomous . RikonV2 is the successor of my previous Robot RikonV1 .

At first i was planning to make it a wheel balancing robot , however things turned to something else , but the outcome was not that bad at all and i see a wide space for improvements .

I started by making a base frame with some wood i had laying around :

Then glued it together and added 2 modified Servos :

Then i started making a shield for the arduino , to make it easy for me to switch the arduino between different projects :

The blue circuit is a Bi-Directional voltage shifter , i used it for interfacing serial communication between the arduino and the RPI .

Then assembled together a circuit for the 3axis accelerometer .

as i said in the beginning, i was planning making it a balancing robot , but i turned into some complications .. :d . the servos was not precise enough . so i decided to make it into an R2D2 Robot style :) . the accelerometer can be used as a tilt sensor , why now :

At that stage the RPI was placed in the back and i had already made a H-bridge based on a L298N , which can be seen just near the wheels . Here is a close picture to it :

Next, Two voltage regulators , one for the RPI and Arduino , and the second for powering the Servos and the audio amplifier i salvage from an old computer speaker :

For the head , i started shaping a piece of public phone card with a heat gun . it doesn't look like it, isn't it : ):

The eyes and the mouth are small SMD LEDs salvage from an old phone :

Then added the RPI camera module , and tada :

The front cover was made from a bottle then painted with a white spray :

For the audio I/O from the RPI , i used an external usb module sound :

And audio output passed through an audio amplifier , as the volume was too low. however the microphone was directly connected to the usb module sound . Then i mounted the speaker and the mic in the front:

The hardware part almost complete, the final look seems not bad to me :

Now the software part . In the arduino nothing much going on in it . it simply wait for a message using serial data from the RPI and do the corresponding action . More details about this project can be found here

  • 1 × Arduino Mega 2560
  • 1 × Raspberry PI
  • 1 × Rapberry pi Camera Module
  • 3 × Power Pro Micro servo
  • 1 × Bi-Directional level shifter

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Foxmjay wrote 05/01/2014 at 09:16 point
Thanks Dave , i've been looking on how to embed the video since i started writing about the project , i still couldn't figure out how .. :D . anyway i set the video link in the log as well :)

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davedarko wrote 05/01/2014 at 09:21 point
I commented on your video log about that and you may want to edit the project to add the video link(s) to the link section?

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davedarko wrote 05/01/2014 at 08:42 point
This is missing a demo video. You can't really tell from the picture that you put that much work in there

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davedarko wrote 05/01/2014 at 08:48 point
I just found out the first link is your video. That looks awesome. You got to put that videoas a log and a link so anyone can find it easier..

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