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This robot head was originally built as a end of the year project for my physical computing class, but over the summer it has "learned" how to talk. ...
This robot head uses:1 Breadboard (It has to be more than 48 rows long with a gap running down the center of the board to connect IC chips. A power an...
Solder the Freeduinos (like I did), Or disregard this line if you bought a Arduino. Here is the link to their assembly instructions for all of the peo...
Take the cardboard box that you chose to be your head and mark out the places that you would like to cut out for the eyes and mouth by cutting pieces ...
Tape or mark the pieces to their final positions onto the box and cut them out. (Keep the piece of paper that you used to represent the mouth, you wil...
Each LED in the mouth will light up independently. To do that you need to make an LED matrix for the mouth. (For an idea on what is a LED matrix, see ...
Before doing anything else, check that all your LEDs are not burned out or dim. You can do this by finding a small 3V button battery and holding the l...
Solder long wires that can fit into a breadboard (22 gauge) onto all the LED cathode leads. These wires will control the LEDs. Afterwards be sure to i...
Before installing your mini-servos inside of your robot head, hot glue a long strong (But still bendable) wire onto the servo arm. This wire will go u...
Hot glue the grid to a piece of cardboard that you have drilled holes in and hot glue that onto the inside of the robot head.
Solder the Common Anode RGB LED lead to a long wire. Then solder a colored wire (red, green, blue) to the RGB LED lead that corresponds to it (The co...
Install the LEDs inside of the robot head by putting them where you want them and then folding and taping the wires to the inside of the box. Putting...
Glue a square piece of paper that is slightly larger than the hole that you have cut out. Glue it over the hole to cover up the hole and the LED behi...
In this step you will have to daisy chain 3 TLC5940NTs together to drive a total of 42 LED outputs (36 for the mouth, 6 for the multicolored eyes).Th...
Connect all of the LEDs to the TLCs, row by row, starting with the one in the upper left-hand corner and moving on to the LED directly on the right. H...
Connect the Power and Ground of the servos to Power and Ground on your breadboard. Connect the control wire of the Left servo (Your left while facing...
Please no trespassing...
The latest TLC library for the Arduino can be found at their Google code page at: code.google.com/p/tlc5940arduino/.Download the latest library and i...
Load my serial expression test sketch which you can download below. Load it into the Freeduino and type some commands into the serial monitor to test...
Download the new improved Adafruit waveshield from Google code (Thank you Mr Fat16 for making this improved library): code.google.com/p/wavehc/ Again...
Insert your SD cards into your computer and format them using the FAT or FAT16 file type. NOT FAT32! Then load your SD cards with speech files from A...
Download and run my serial Waveshield test sketch. You should be able to through the serial terminal, type a sentence and have the Waveshield play it ...
Wait... Why do we need to wire up a I2C interface between two Freeduinos? Why can't we just plug the Waveshield and the TLCs into one Freeduino? Here'...
Enable I2C on the Freeduino that you used to control the TLCs by downloading this sketch. It will receive information on expressions from the Waveshi...
Download this sketch and load it onto the Waveshield Freeduino, it sends the words"behappy;" and then "besad;" over the I2C interface to the TLC cont...
Load the final version of the Waveshield Freeduino code. It should take any words that you type into the serial monitor and speak them (as long as it...
Mount all of the Freeduinos onto the back of the box with wires. Close the top flap of the box with wires and you're done! Now if only it could check...
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