R2D2 Robot Powered by Raspberry Pi

Published on Jan 13, 2013

This is a birthday gift I built from scratch for my girlfriend
The hardware is made of a broken Interactive R2D2 toy and a bunch of cheap parts purchased online. Inside, the little guy is powered by a Raspberry Pi running Rasbian.

Features:
voice control (in English and Chinese, using PocketSphinx)
face recognition (using OpenCV)
motion detection ultrasonic distance detection
audio message record and replay sound play and TTS
rechargeable battery wifi