[Noisebridge-discuss] robots WILL kill you.

[Dr. Jesus]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:26 PM, lilia <liliakai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Noise-bot aka MC Hawking the wheelchair robot has received some exciting new
> upgrades:
>
> A Kinect for a head.
> A flat panel display for a face.
> A standard wall plug for a...um...well...appendage.
> A custom height socket fixture for a girlfriend.
> The Opencv library for a visual cortex.
>
> I have a python script that reads data from the kinect, detects faces and
> turns the robot to face them. I will be working on autonomous wandering and
> following humans during tonight's Circuit Hacking Monday so feel free to
> stop by and check out the bot's new duds. It may also Be-The-Hack just
> before tomorrow night's meeting.

I want to point out that the IRC robot has been expressing a
disturbing amount of interest in attaching things to MC Hawking
lately.