I WANT ONE!!!!

There needs to be far more tutorials like this for the Raspberry Pi. We need more tutorials showing us how to use motion sensors, RC servos, etc….

My life now has a purpose :)

Please I would love more info on this project!

Clearly Eben has a problem.

That is Awesome…..note the capital A!!

Not sure, but maybe this is the guy:

http://multicore.zju.edu.cn/fatlab/greenshell.htm

(The name at the video matches the real name at the site)

By law, someone’s gotta say this:

This is not the droid you’re looking for…

This is better than falling into a vat at the awesomesauce factory!

Cheap R2d2 Robots For Ez-robot Hacks
http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/posts.aspx?threadId=2000&page=6

I’m especially interested in the speech recognition parts. He got R2 D2 to turn left, right, around, and forward 1 and 5 units. That is awesome.

I must have this please take my money!!!! but I want a t3 like in knights of the old republic!

I want one of them ! Or I can create my own if someone can find more information about this hack and…. I definitively need to meet his girlfriend, I’ve never found a GF happy for a present like that…
Seriously talking, this is a nice and interesting hack, need to have more details on sw (opencv, motion and festival are involved probably) and hw part as well (PVM, stepper or whatever he used. I’m also interested in the original toy, I’ve never seen a cheap R2D2 replica for that kind of hack

that’s his current homepage include his photo.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/lxiang/

Some details from his homepage on how to build it.

The hardware is made of a broken Interactive R2D2 toy and a bunch of cheap parts purchased online. Inside, the little guy is powered by a Raspberry Pi running Rasbian. It supports a rich set of features, including voice control (in English and Chinese, using PocketSphinx), face recognition (using OpenCV), motion detection, ultrasonic distance detection, audio message record and replay, sound play and TTS, rechargeable battery, wifi and so on.

This is the auther’s homepage.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/lxiang/

“Help me, Ebe-Wan Keneben. You’re my only hope.”

Not so sure,
see Star Wars Interactiev R2D2, by Hasbro

which, off the shelf, does…

Newly programmed at our ultra-modern factory, this state-of-the-art R2 series astromech droid unit is ready to obey your commands
Grab his attention by saying “Hey, R2!” and he’s ready for more than 40 voice commands
Just a few of R2’s amazing attributes include moving along on his own
In “Game” mode, R2 plays multiple games and spins, dances and plays music
Once you’ve mastered R2’s companion and game modes

Sooo cool! I want to hook up a speech recognition / text-to-speech app to a chat bot on the RPi but I thought the speech recognition part would be to much for the Pi, but I’m glad this proves me wrong!

This is gonna be awesome :D