I did nothing today! Nothingggggg at all!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

It really feels like I didn’t do anything today! I guess I did a few bits and bites of stuff… but I didn’t really make a huge dent in any of my projects.

I tried to make my MANOI’s head work off of 12V from a transformer, but it didn’t work. I’m not entirely sure why, but it might have been because the Grounds weren’t common-ized or combined together at any point. Maybe I’ll be able to run all of the motors off of 9V… but I have a feeling MANOI won’t be as sturdy. But, if I do it that way, I know for sure I won’t blow one of these motors! (MANOI’s head is okay, don’t worry)

One of the major aggravating points that I’m faced with is that I can’t get the old board out of it! It’s incredibly frustrating!!! It’s not like I can rip it out… and it’s blocking me from doing the other stuff. Maybe I won’t need jumpers if I can fit the SSC-32 piggybacked with a RBBB into MANOI on a diagonal, where the other board used to be (in this case, still is).

I can’t wait to make it walk!!

This brings me to the Wii Nunchuck situation. I bought one of those “cheap” knock-offs, plugged it into the WiiNunchuck board adapter thingy, and it didn’t work. I debugged everything and came to this solution:

There was a short on one of the boards

:S Errrg! So now I’m assuming that the Nunchuck is not functional anymore.
-> By the way, that was the board my dad soldered as he wanted to try the soldering iron…

I guess I’ll buy another one and try again, probably after I hook up MANOI.

I’ve been making a pretty neat program in Processing, but I’m not releasing it yet as I can’t get the colours to work properly… and it will look much better with colours. ;P

Additionally, it seems I have finished the sound recording program… now I just will have to program the analysis of the recording’s wave. After that, I make a mock Acoustic Model. During that time… I order the n-gram corpus. By the time they arrive, I hopefully should be done. Then I’ll be sorting the words in the corpus (actually, a computer will probably do it…) and then have Mac’s speech synthesis say the selected words, where then the analysis program would run… and all of the results would be placed into a sqllite database.

Following that, I’d then have to code the language model… but it should merely be just an implementation and tweaking of algorithms like the HMM.

All of this just for a robot that can have many senses @_@!

Heheh I wrote quite a lot in this entry, especially when I had no clue what to write about. ^_^

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3 Responses to “I did nothing today! Nothingggggg at all!”

1. Evil Paul Says:
   October 1st, 2008 at 3:30 AM

   Have you tried your NunChuck with a Wii? It might not be busted.
   I have a wireless one and it works OK with the Wii, but it isn’t working so well with the Arduino. I think I need to feed it 3.3 volts instead of 5 volts – since it’s a knockoff it might be a bit more sensitive to supply voltage than the real deal.

2. Thom Blake Says:
   October 1st, 2008 at 4:46 AM

   What are you trying to accomplish with the language stuff? It sounds pretty deep.

3. Ron Says:
   October 1st, 2008 at 11:03 AM

   If you need a clean 3.3V supply, take a look at the LM2937ET 3.3. Just keep its input voltage down (around 5-6V) otherwise you’ll dissipate too much energy as heat.

   Sounds like it’s about time to build your own bench power supply. Let me know if you need any recommendations, I’ve built a few of them. You can never have too much clean stable power.

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