Friday Night Robotics – Light

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Friday, January 23rd, 2009

For better or worse, I made a program for BubbleBoy that reacts to a light being turned on.

The program evaluates the light the same way MANOI’s hockey stick did. Once it goes over a particular threshold, it will begin to spin its hat and start saying “HELLO!HELLO!HELLO!”.

At first, I wanted to make BB react to sound, so I dismantled a “haut-parleur” that I got a while ago, thinking that it was a piezo speaker. It’s actually not a piezo, because when I was looking at the analog readings on the Arduino, nothing happened if I fiddled with it. Weird!

When it says on the LCD that I’m at “cheel”, it is hardcoded in. I tried to use the script that downloads a feed, but it doesn’t work for me, for some reason. I commented below that post with my setup and questions. =)

Aah I can’t wait until my Femsapien arrives from the EPFL! It is super boring without a humanoid to work on.

I’m not exactly sure what the moral of this FNR is supposed to be… annoy me and face ‘teh ultimate’ BubbleBoy?! Hahahaha

I’ll add the video later in another post, Vimeo has a wait time of 130 minutes – and YouTube … well who knows about YouTube. o.O

I’m going to be working on an AI Library for Processing with a few people here at the COSI (hopefully). Expect many more posts about that! Woohuu! =)

That’s all for now. *turns lamp off*

Posted in: Programming, Projects, Robot, School.
Tags: AI Library, Arduino, boring, BubbleBoy, COSI, EPFL, Femsapien, FNR, friday night robotics, haut-parleur, lamp, LDR, light, photocell, piezo, Processing, Robot, speaker, wait time

One Response to “Friday Night Robotics – Light”

1. r Says:
   February 4th, 2009 at 12:15 PM

   Hey Erin! I’m not sure if you got the pingback from my site. I have a few suggestions as for why you might be “at cheel”!

   http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2008/12/02/arduino-based-rss-reader-with-lcd/#comment-672

   Good luck!

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