Final Project - Week 2 (March 5 - March 9)

This is the last week before our first milestone has to be met (on the 9th). I still need to get the Galileo to run an executable jar file, but I will also be working on updating the code I have in order to have the programming portion in place. The WaveShield is no longer needed, as I will be hooking up a stereo to the Galileo to get the speech output, and using a microphone to get input.

I've got a long way to go before this is ready to be seen by anyone, but with Spring Break coming up, and I will definitely have to compromise on what can really get done in my timeframe. Hopefully, the majority of this project will work.

PROGRESS:

1. picked a design for the toy, and began sowing. The final should look similar to this:

2. worked on creating a second and third version of the programming code

*Problems with the second version: I am trying to use a Vector, which I've never used before, and it appears to be working (Yay!) but I will add another post to show what I've learned about them.

*I removed all the punctuation from the user input with a function, but my responseDataBase array still held punctuation, and so I was never able to match the two together. This has been fixed!

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3. attempted to get Jar file to run, still not able to:

*Changed access on my server to allow the robot computer access

*Tried to run executable jar code using this command in the terminal referenced from here:

$ java -jar myJar.jar [optional parameters]

**Issues faced at this point:

---Again, the computer does not recognize my directory on royal. I don't know how else to acccess it, so at this point I'm stuck, and will talk to Professor St.John on Monday about next steps.

WHAT'S LEFT TO DO:

-Get the Jar File to run on the Galileo (URGENT!!!)

-wrap up the programming portion

-sew the plush toy

-work on making the robot more robot-like

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE:

Obviously the timeline is a little bit off because I didn't foresee the Galileo taking so long to understand. Therefore I'm slightly off on where I would like to be at this point. Over spring break, I'm going to keep adapting my code and have a plush toy pretty completely sown. Then when I get back, I will have the rest of the time to determine how to make the toy more robot-like. I will work on this for the remaining time. I would like to use velostat to have interaction occur between the user and the toy, and am looking into places where I can get movement with the current design. I'll brainstorm all of this in another post over break, which will be linked here.

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