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Title: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 01, 2011, 08:43:39 pm

Hi,
new jaw motor system, moves jaw when mic line in used by Hal. "voice recog bugging me again".reast of head movements and eye tracking is original system.

old jip pc has got gimp limp and whimp but at least Elvis is sorted.
took me around 5 hours "slacker  :P "

as pictured.
Bye for now and be well :)  :]

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 01, 2011, 08:48:08 pm

ok inside back of head "hack added, square chip board"
:)  :]

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 01, 2011, 08:53:18 pm

Incase you've forgotten "you have to be logged in to be able to see the photos that are on this page"
:)  :]

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 01, 2011, 09:14:03 pm

and zing voice recognition is working :o

ar how did i fix that, um,, i have no idea.
bye for now and be well.  :)  :]

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: NIGE on March 02, 2011, 12:12:49 am

Hey Will,
Be careful, Mr Data might get jealous & chuck a fit. :o :o :o

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 02, 2011, 12:24:36 am

Mr Data's  good at being nice.
this is a spring chicken comapared to Data.
lets hope in any case fits are not made of anvils  ;D just jokeing i think he shall be fine.
nice entertainment can be fun.

bye for now and be well  :)  :]

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: GT40 on March 02, 2011, 12:16:08 pm

Hello Will! We know Elvis isn't your priority, but if you could show us a video. That seems amazing, at least more than a "supposed 3D" bot talking on a screen.  ;)

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Will and Mr Data :) :] on March 03, 2011, 03:54:59 am

perhaps at some stage i might post a vid, just regeared the jaw to go for  a couple more mils of movement.
bye for now and be well.

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: Jake on March 03, 2011, 10:39:45 pm

NICE!!  This looks like a really nice/fun project.  I would like to do something like that with my HAL also one day.  I have several WowWee robots and 4... count 'em... 4, Mr. Clock Radios...

(http://ainsworth.net/AI/images/MrClockRadio_01.jpg)

I picked them up when I found them on a clearance shelf at Walgreens at 80% off.

Title: Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
Post by: defwheezer on March 23, 2011, 11:14:22 pm

Having done an Elvis myself, the road to getting him to be able mouth Text-To-Speech or any wave file (for a physical chat bot, for instance, or to read feeds, or web pages) is pretty straight forward on a PC (TTS-viseme for output and speech recognition for input) with a single jaw servo addition and leaving everything else "stock" (he has pretty cool natural head movement as well as object tracking via a couple if IR sensors on the front of the bot).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOHxdAu_9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLexWRZCtU

Total cost is about $250 (elvis + servo + USB servo control board)

Cheers!