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franke
May 31

Bella, unbelievable, but now even more beautiful!

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Hi Li, I give her 7 Voltes now and she behaves now (most of the time). Probably some electronic part is light sensitive as I have the impression she works better at night.

I think she could move more smoothly (the first version run more smoothly, hmmmm), I still have to fine tune her skills.

Next step ist to put an Raspberry Pi on her back so I can control her via WIFI and later speech controlled.

 

 

 

Rongzhong Li
May 31

"I have the impression she works better at night", that's reasonable for nocturnal animals.

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franke
Jun 2

Communication with a Raspberry Pi 3 on her back works fine. I can trigger all her skills from the command line from remote. Using SOPARE from http://www.bishoph.org/ he is probably controlable by voice.

I check SOPARE the next 4 weeks. We will see :)

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Rongzhong Li
Jun 2

I’m writing a much better Python commander to allow more motion control from the Pi.

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franke
Nov 28Edited: Nov 28

Still growing.... needs imporvement, i know....

 

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