Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
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1) Buy a Meccanno. All prototype robots are Meccano. One with motors in it is the best.
2) Learn the basics of electric circuits. If you know how to switch on and off a DC motor, that's enough for a start. Afterwards, you'll want to put in it things like photodetectors (so it can "see") and the like. Best thing you can do, get some book on electric/electronic circuits with a lot of examples and look for the sort of things that you could want to do.
3) Get one of those thingies to connect the parallel/serial port of your computer to another circuit without having to worry about f***ing your ports if something goes wrong in the circuit.
4) Get a little program that will send the right signals to the serial/parallel port so you can control the movement of the robot from the computer.
5) Do all the clever stuff in software.
6) If you want very precise motors (and if you really get into it, you will want them), the best ones are step-by-step motors. Easiest way to get them: open up a floppy disk drive. Controlling them is the tricky bit, though, very much FWO (for wizards only). But when you get to that point, you can ask for further instructions.
2) Learn the basics of electric circuits. If you know how to switch on and off a DC motor, that's enough for a start. Afterwards, you'll want to put in it things like photodetectors (so it can "see") and the like. Best thing you can do, get some book on electric/electronic circuits with a lot of examples and look for the sort of things that you could want to do.
3) Get one of those thingies to connect the parallel/serial port of your computer to another circuit without having to worry about f***ing your ports if something goes wrong in the circuit.
4) Get a little program that will send the right signals to the serial/parallel port so you can control the movement of the robot from the computer.
5) Do all the clever stuff in software.
6) If you want very precise motors (and if you really get into it, you will want them), the best ones are step-by-step motors. Easiest way to get them: open up a floppy disk drive. Controlling them is the tricky bit, though, very much FWO (for wizards only). But when you get to that point, you can ask for further instructions.
It isn't such a great idea to take bits from a remote controlled car, because their innards can be complicated, and generally they don't come with instructions that tell you: "This bit does this". But it can be fun to take apart the remote control, connect the switches to your computer via the ports, and control the car through your computer.
I didn't realise I was also supposed to judge the hamsterness of some bots. Hmmm... I wonder if anybody has done a chimp or gorilla bot? Some chimps can speak a few words in sign language. I also wonder if the Loebner contest would award something to a bot that successfully convinced the judges of being a chimp.
I once made a robot that successfully convinced everyone it was a useless piece of junk. It even convinced me!
It's not what you say, it's how you say it.
Maybe they could tweak the Turing Test a little more, so now....not only is it sufficient for a bot to convince us it's a bot, but a useless piece of junk can convince us it's a useless piece of junk, and win the prize.
Maybe they could tweak the Turing Test a little more, so now....not only is it sufficient for a bot to convince us it's a bot, but a useless piece of junk can convince us it's a useless piece of junk, and win the prize.
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