Portal 2 Wheatley replica - Making Wheatley Talk

Follow the progress of this project here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1908651

This time I'm going to make wheatley talk (on his own), by adding an onboard audio-processor. Then I'll be adding eyelid placeholders, and at last be putting it all together.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• portal
• wheatley
• replica
• test
• personality
• core
• sphere
• servo
• claw
• prototype
• watt
• electronics
• power
• supply
• powersupply
• arduino
• atmega
• microcontroller
• robot
• adafruit
• waveshield
• wave
• shield
• talk
• speech
• speak
• speaking
• talking

[trevmister8]

You've definately been silent on this project fo r along time.. Is it still goin' on?

[94thts]

@trevmister8 Hmm.. Not really. The portal 2 hype wore off rather quickly, and I'm not sure I've got time for these things anymore :/

[trevmister8]

@94thts Ahh. Dang. This was turning out amazingly and it looked like it was nearly done o.o (electronically anyway) o.o

[94thts]

@trevmister8 Well I might resume it later, but I'm not sure if people are still interested in portal stuff :P

[94thts]

You're gonna run out of smileys eventually...

[SSgtDom]

@94thts ..and by the way your soldering skills are nealy as astonishing like Wheatleys hacking methods.

I recommend you to watch that nice tutorial of Dave Jones from EEVBlog: watch?v=J5Sb21qbpEQ

Also, I would recommend that you to make some sort of scripting the PWM values for the servo motors since it kinda looks a bit too much movement while you make it react to the sound. The basic idea would be to declare two arrays, one for PWM value and one for seconds, >>Darn, I am running out of chars

[aserta]

@94thts You joking right? Half life 3. Borealis. 

[youareapingas42]

Dat audio compression.

[TripleSStudios1116]

This dude is the next cave johnson

[comradeJoe2]

Sounds interesting enough in concept, however I think it'd have a better shutter response to do it with a rotary mechanism, like in a camera diaphragm

[SonicAngel23]

I'm no good at circuit boards. I don't even understand how they work. ^^'

But hey, I might make a plushie Wheatley! I am pretty good at sewing. Not the best, but it's fairly good. :D

Oh, by the way, you got a new subber. ;D

[Ferrari31198]

um i fell like a complete idiot to this......