Tuesday, April 26, 2005
05:10 PM
hat every young man should know

HOWTO build an android head for $600: "Cory Doctorow:
This HOWTO runs down step-by-step instructions for building a semi-functional android head running Java with stereoscopic vision and servos for eyelids, all for less than $600.

It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head (Figure 1) for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two color video-camera eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java application. The robot will have six servo motors controlling: (1) base of the head spins, (2,3) each eye moves left/right, (4) both eyes move up/down, (5,6) each eye-lid opens/closes. All servo motors are controlled via a Java application. The user supplies the computer (PC). The details of how to construct such a head follows, based on the authors creation of Robot Maxamilian, R. Max for short.

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(Thanks, Nicholas!)

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