Developer open-sources PAL9000 desktop companion robot
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Developer /u/SpaceMonkeyAlfa has open-sourced the desktop companion robot project PAL9000-Desktop-Robot on Reddit, built with a MacBook, an Android phone and a Raspberry Pi Pico W. According to the developer, the Pico W connects to the control pins of two servos on a 2-degree-of-freedom gimbal; the MacBook uses the camera feed with MediaPipe and AprilTags to recognize people and convert angles, and can switch focus among people wearing specific AprilTags; the Android phone runs animated expressions whose eye pupils track faces. Each part of the project can run independently: face and eye tracking can run in a phone or laptop browser, the conversation server requires adjustments to audio output, and the robot control program can run on its own to turn and track people. The developer says the entire project is open source and not generated by "vibe coding".
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A developer built an open-source desktop companion robot using a MacBook, an Android phone, and a Raspberry Pi Pico W: the Pico W drives the two servos of a 2-DOF pan-tilt head, the MacBook uses MediaPipe and AprilTags to recognize people and convert angles, and the phone screen displays eye animations that can track faces.
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