#duoprojects

[portaldaindustriaimobiliariabras]

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[j-tech-portfolio]

At this very moment we have a working (sort of) digital prototype of our bot. Right now it only becomes happy when you state that you feel happy, but I’m confident we can build it into something greater!

[industrialillussions]

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Challenge: Create a Parallax scrolling background for the 2d platformer “Riders Fury“.

[bensmit007]

Fase 1. Binnen- (Ad) & Buitentafels (Ben) maken. #duoproject #visgraatmotief #doehetzelf #tilburg #lijmen #wachten (bij Tilburg, Netherlands)

[fredoliveiramusic]

Registro do show de ontem, duo acústico! Músicas selecionadas e ambiente lindo e aconchegante, vale a pena conhecer o @dez17loungebar ! Sábado vamos estar lá novamente a partir das 17 horas fazendo um happy hour bem agitado, chega junto 😉🎸🎙️ . . . . . . . . #fred #fredmusic #fredoliveira #music #musica #musicaboa #1017 #duoacustico #duoproject #life #lifemusic #rock #rocks #pop #poprock #rocknroll #popmusic #fortaleza #ceara (em DEZ17 Lounge Bar)

[j-tech-portfolio]

Kill your darlings

After a talk with one of the teachers, I have decided to give up on emotion detection with a camera. I spent a lot of hours on it and I’m sad to give up on it, but it’s for the better to drop this project that was taking too much time without any real result.

Based on the feedback we received, we decided to take a look at speech to text. Speech to text can be used to detect emotion as well and we could build upon that principle.

[j-tech-portfolio]

Sometimes, after hard work, things still don’t work out. On paper everything in this python application should work, but instead of getting a live video feed, I’m getting static.  There are no errors in the code (if my webcam doesn’t work, there should be an error) so there might be something wrong with the webcam settings on my computer.

I will have to investigate further before I can continue.

[j-tech-portfolio]

When trying to do mahcine learning, make sure you have enough memory in your pc, or don’t do it on your own machine.

Also make sure you set enough time aside to perform this task, since your computer is pretty much unusable during this. This task took about 4 to 5 hours.

[j-tech-portfolio]

A small hiccup

Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you want them to... There were problems with a library I needed to make the emotion detection work on my Raspberry Pi. Likely, the cause of this is the creators of the library not updating it.

I once heard a classmate say “The Raspberry Pi does everything a computer does, just worse.” and it’s safe to say that I think he’s right.

Therefore we decided to develop our project on a computer with Windows 10 first, to get the proof of concept out. After that it’s possible to look at transporting it to a Raspberry Pi so it can actually fit into a robot.

I already found a tutorial on how to do emotion detection on Windows 10 through machine learning, so I know where to start!

[j-tech-portfolio]

This little guy will have to help use with our face/emotion detection journey. I found a promising tutorial using Python, for an emotion recognition program.

While I don’t know a lot about Python, it looks approachable enough for me to sink my teeth into and get a nice end product.

[j-tech-portfolio]

Let’s get techincal

So what should the robot be able to do? At the very least we want the robot to be able to see the emotion on the user’s face, and act accordingly in a positive way to motivate the user.

We plan on doing this with a Raspberry Pi and its camera module!

[j-tech-portfolio]

Sketching definitely is an important method to draw out your concept, but it isn’t really tangible.

This is where paper prototyping comes in handy. This is a good method to see how your product would look in the real world (in a lo-fi way). You can see what works and what doesn’t work with the physical product. For instance, I immediately noticed that the dimensions of the robot we had in mind were way too big.

Back to the drawing board!

[j-tech-portfolio]

After some good feedback from a teacher. We decided to play around with the face (screen) of the robot. We were thinking too much about the shape of screens in general when designing the shape of the face. 

Why would the robot that we want to look relatable to humans have a square face? People don’t have square faces either! Here’s a quick design sketch of a round-faced robot. The shape of the body was inspired the headlight of a bicycle. 

[j-tech-portfolio]

To get a clearer view of what is possible for the looks of the robot, I decided to digitally sketch a design I had and gave it colour.

This way it’s easier to make your concept alive and more lovable for people looking from the outside.

[j-tech-portfolio]

Future impact

The future impact of our lockdown “Tamagotchi” will be that people can keep a healthy routine in general. Not just during the pandemic, not just univesity students.

[j-tech-portfolio]

Impact

The impact of our product is that university students, 17-24 years of age, get the emotional support they need to get out of the current lockdown mentality