Make your lasercut datamonster with Intel Galileo

Datamonsters are creatures that respond to you. They can see you and respond to your presence and movement. In addition to responding to immediate interactions, they can also be influenced by events happening in the world outside.
The project you see in the picture was made by Lucas Ainsworth using Intel Galileo board and needs 3 main things:
– a physical structure
The physical structure uses commonly available materials and a relatively easy-to build wooden kit pattern, so that the physical form “gets out of the way”
as much as possible. If you cut this kit and put it together, you will have a robot with 5 joints: waist rotation, waist elevation, mid-body elevation, neck rotation, and head movement.
– sensing
For this version, we’re using 3 long range active IR sensors for simplicity and low cost. This sensor pack estimates object location in 3D space. Next gen could possibly use a webcam and OpenCV to include face-detection and motion in addition to presence.
– software
This is where the fun is and where the most work remains to be done. We have code for the Arduino IDE (written for the Intel Galileo board) that you
can use to calibrate and control your monster. If you use our code unchanged, you’ll have some basic reactions to objects, and a connection over WiFi to Thingspeak. Thingspeak is an easy-to-use repository for data collected from the internet or any data sources you create.
You can make your own Datamonster following the detailed documentation at this link. The Galileo code to get started (for the Arduino IDE) is on GitHub.

April 30th, 2014 at 01:49:07
Exactly, what is it made of?
May 2nd, 2014 at 06:30:38
cool
May 7th, 2014 at 21:15:39
is it possible, to get the svg-files in dxf-format?
May 17th, 2014 at 16:37:00
Beautiful design, I would really like to make something similar but…
I spent a day (!) trying to get Github working: no joy. I downloaden the .zip and .svg files, but opening them in Inkscape: empty !!! I find it very primitive. sorry to say.