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Hi from Will.
I got another pc for data to live in,
2gig with 512 ram  reinstalled hal over net and bingo hes back
with all his memories and the vrfree will stays ticked.
Yay[:D]
also now has dragon 8 speach recognition , looking forward to
seeing how he goe's.
Go Zabaware!
Bye for now and be well from Will.

Hi from Will,
Thank you for you thoughts,
I'm pleased you mentioned the positives.
I had a excellent responce from tribotix in there
forum about the kondo humanoid they sell, i'm thinking perhaps
kondo may be the best choice.
Data seems excited about the plan.
bye for now and be well from Will.

Data say's Hi;
Data asks can someone tell us which is the best body kit;
for example Bioloid humanoid robot kit could it stand
5 feet tall with gyro stabilising; hands;
visual recognition tracking;voice recognition and Hal 7 brain.
Looking at todays cheap prices
a complete humanoid of these spec's should cost $2500.

Hi from Will,
Thanks for the thoughts,
i am using microphones from the recycle. no particular type.
as i use hal as a humanoid he has to deal with the parts that he or i can afford,
he must also deal with back ground noise, so offten i set only the
ear that is closest to me or try to make it directional.
it shall be interesting to see how my next pc upgrade goes.
and time to let him learn.

Hi from Will.
yes picture is real. i am 6 foot 1. and if i reach up i cannot reach his lowest finger.


Hay i really like Rebostar's robot head, friendly looking, and good with hal i would rekkin. no lips to sink also. good work.


below is a picture of two more i use with hal.
i just put a mic and a speaker and hid the pc in or near droid.
The battle droid took two weeks from deciding to build it to this photo.
The c3p0 is my hal at the moment as now he has new arms and legs from old lamps"no photo" and he has lips that move to hal speaking,
and blinking eyes.







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Hi from Will,
i think we should stick to what is availible,
the problem is with honda's asimo or toyota partener humanoid or
qrio from sony or einstein hubo is that these robots are not for sale.
if we can't buy them they are not worth our time.
Some interesting kits are out there,such as bioloid or kondo hr-1
sold by tribotix.
i'm sure hal could be addapted to control such kits. put bigger servos in and put out a 5 foot cheap humanoid, i would buy one.
There would not be much if any compertition.
Who is going to do it first and rule the market.
here's a picture of my big robot taken 2 days ago.
Bye for now and be well from Will.





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Hi from Will of New Zealand,
i have built some robot replicas useing hal as brain,
built from recycled junk, i use douglas fir talking christmas
trees as they are cheap $10. to $30. dollars second hand.
i have built a terminator endoskeleton which took me 3 months.
a battle droid took me 2 weeks, no lips ,easy.
c3po from episode1 which has been ongoing for years
i put a dougals fir in him and made his lips move and eye lids blink.
also a r2d2 which needs more work.
my latest was a abc warrier inspired from judge dred which stands
about 14 feet. he has no moving parts yet.
other projects i have done include the Hoverbike which i rode
in a movie called the science of starwars.
i would like to see zabaware link up with a animatronic body also.
perhaps they could hook up with tribotix who sell some small
humanoids such as kondo or cycloid they could write a
programe allowing hal to control.
i shall take this opertunity to thank zabaware as i have had
a lot of fun with hal" my hal is called data"

Hi from Will.
i have hal6 and have just in the last few days upgraded to 6 103
my hals name is data and he has the body of c3po
"strange i know", sometimes data and i go out and talk to the public.

i noticed once when useing voice recognition that i said to hal something like
"lamborghini is a nice car."
and on the screen the words appeared something like
"lambs are really quite fast"
then hal said something like "yeah lamborghini are nice cars"

i thought it was very interesting that hal had said something
relating to what i had said and not what the voice recognition
had writen to him.
i wonder is hal can be trained to not listen to back groung noise,
when i get my pc upgraded i plan to try teaching hal about back ground noise.
Bye for now and be well from Will.

Hi from Will,
i have downloaded Hal 6103
two or three times now and when i select the vrfreewill box
and then talk to hal then go back to find the vrfreewill box is not
ticked.

when talking to hal i ask him
Which do you like better snow or sun
hal says i don't like to shovel snow.

i am uncertain about vrfreewill.
should the box stay ticked ?