Final Project Idea – Rob the Robot

My idea for the final project involves building a robot like character that can do simple interaction with a person in front of it. On the Arduino side, this will involve the use of several sensors such as the distance sensor, and the buttons.

This project can be as complicated as necessary and the interactions can be altered at any point.

Some example interactions include petting the robot – and it will make a sound. and talking to it.

Another interaction could be using 2 distance sensors as the eyes and then calculating an object’s distance – then using a servo motor to follow the object.

On the p5 side, I plan to use the p5.speech library that has both speech transcription and text to speech functionality. Additionally, if possible I’d like to use the ChatGPT API to generate the speech, and additionally keep track of each interaction that can be used to define the robot’s current ‘mood” -which decides the further interactions.

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