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Need help with my astromech's voice control

DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Posts: 24
edited 2006-11-29 03:08 in Robotics
I am working on a Q9-series astromech from scratch, and I need help with the Voice Control. confused.gif

Here's the way it works: The main unit hears the commands, and sends them to the interface, which activates the application. The Interface allows up to ten commands with the eleventh used for turning off each activation.

Three-point-terminals are used to connect the interface to the application that activates with the command. When activated, it allows a current to go through it to activate the object.

The problem is, I don't know how·to hook it up.

Here is the diagram:
3pointterminal.jpg

Anybody with an explanation of how this works and·how I would connect them to the object activated with a voice command would be great.

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DrkCrwlr

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  • allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
    edited 2006-11-27 00:05
    We need to know the vendor. A web-site link to the docs would help. What is this "Q9" you speak of?

    And an "object activated with a voice command" is ambiguous. What object are you activating? A light? A buzzer? A wheel?
  • Steve JoblinSteve Joblin Posts: 784
    edited 2006-11-27 01:07
    The Q9 Series is a real challange to build from scratch... I would suggest starting with an P2 Series first to gain experience.
  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Posts: 24
    edited 2006-11-28 03:13
    allanlane5 said...
    We need to know the vendor. A web-site link to the docs would help. What is this "Q9" you speak of?

    And an "object activated with a voice command" is ambiguous. What object are you activating? A light? A buzzer? A wheel?
    Website: The Voice Recognition kit is from http://www.imagesco.com/speech/speech-recognition-technology.html·.

    Ambiguous Object: In the end it will be a motor, but right now I'm testing with LEDs.

    Q9: I forgot to tell you, I am from The R2 Builders Club, a place where you build realistic replicas of the astromechs from the movie "Star Wars" (an astromech is what R2-D2 is). In the movie, there are a whole series of astromechs like R1, R2, R3, R4, etc. I chose to build the Q9.
    Steve Joblin said...
    The Q9 Series is a real challange to build from scratch... I would suggest starting with an P2 Series first to gain experience.
    What's a P2?

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    DrkCrwlr
  • allanlane5allanlane5 Posts: 3,815
    edited 2006-11-28 18:50
    Excellent, thanks.

    So, having gone to the site, here's some of the detail.

    The HM-2007 IC is an Atmel-128, programmed as a trainable voice-command module. It is trained with a connected headset, microphone, small keypad, and LED module. The interface to the keypad and LED module look like 8-bit parallel connections. You enter a few keystrokes to indicate which of the 40 'words' you want to enter, then speak the word.

    Once trained, an additional interface board will give you 'contact closures' for each recognized word.

    Now, you can check out the Parallax "Analog and Digital Interface" course for how to detect and wire the 10 contact closures so you can read them with the BS2. It SHOULD be possible for the chip to send TTL-level RS-232 signals to the BS2 -- but I'm not sure it's programmed that way.

    And do you want to control your motors with the HM2007 interface board itself? Or with the BS2?
  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Posts: 24
    edited 2006-11-29 01:00
    I know how to program the voice commands, I just don't know how to connect them to anything (like an LED). And I am not using a BS2. Yet.

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    DrkCrwlr
  • FranklinFranklin Posts: 4,747
    edited 2006-11-29 03:08
    It looks like you need the sri-02 or sri-03 to get outputs or more information to interface the device to a stamp. what is the output of the device and in what format?

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    - Stephen
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