Hardware description
The software description
Hardware Description.
The software description.
Hardware description
The software description
Hardware Description.
The software description.
Stella is based upon a chassis purchased from Erin (RobotGrrl). The standard chassis contains three servos to activate each of the wings and the beak. To this I've added a two servo pan and tilt mount as well as a web camera. Of course, the eyes light up.
The web camera and the Arduino plug into a laptop runing a python program leveraging OpenCV to do face recognition. The robot tracks detected faces with the pan and tilt and reacts to seeing someone by flapping and chattering. My son enjoyed playing "peak-a-boo" with the bot.