Robolove
summary
Two tiny Lego robots get built around Raspberry Pi 2 boards with Bluetooth dongles, microphones, speakers, wireless-charging batteries and Pulu distance sensors; Ruby code uses pi_piper and lego_nxt gems, Redis pub/sub, threads to drive motors and a priority queue “red alert” for obstacle avoidance. Working bits: Pi 2 speed, Redis messaging, Cleverbot-based scripted dialog. Failing bits: the wireless batteries sleep unpredictably, Pulu sensors fail on black surfaces, Bluetooth RSSI is useless under ~40 ft, and echolocation via mic amplitude proves unreliable, so demos sometimes don’t move.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:38Career detours
- 15:36Ruby and robot focus
- 24:46Passion projects and self-care
- 26:31RoboLove robots and tech
- 31:08Ruby gems for movement
- 33:14Robot priority system failure
- 37:47Terminal input for control
- 38:51Redis for robot communication
- 41:19Live demo and Q&A
