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Animatronic Terminator Skull with BeagleBone®︎ AI -- Episode 418

Finally, the BeagleBoneRegistered AI has been released and Clem is very excited to take it for a spin!  He goes beyond his comfort zone and explore PRU (programmable real-time units), OPENCV (Image recognition) and much more on his journey to build an animatronic Terminator inspired skull. It even cites badly impersonated Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes when it detects a human face. This might not be the beginning of Skynet, but it may lead you to build your own AI powered projects!

 

 

Supplemental Content:

Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
Beaglebone AI Beaglebone 1 Buy Now
Arduino Nano Arduino 1 Buy Now
Fan 5V 25mm Nidec 1 Buy Now
Header Adafruit 1 Buy Now
HD-Webcam, 3MP, C270 Logitech 1 Buy Now
relais module dfrobot 1 Buy Now
microphone module dfrobot 1 Buy Now

 

BeagleBone AI Cooling Add-on Board Bill of Materials available here.

Additional Parts:

Product Name

BBAI-Cooler PCB available at Aisler.net

Plastic Skull

Standard Metal Gear Servos (3 pcs)

Plywood, Paint, Filament
USB Hub
DFPlayer MP3 player module
Attachments:
AnimatronicTerminatorSkull_Resources.zip
TerminatorAudioFiles.zip
image Terms_and_conditions-191106-1.pdf
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Animatronic Terminator Skull with BeagleBoneRegistered AI

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  • This is very cool.  I like your workaround using the Arduino board to interface with the BB AI.

     

    One note, you can use the GPIO on the BB AI, but as far as I have found, for only output pins.  If you are using the Adafruit BBIO libraries, you need to translate the BB Black P8 and P9 GPIO mappings to the associated GPIO pin number on the BB AI.   This has been discussed in multiple places but is still a bit of a pain.

     

    For instance:

    On the BB AI P9_15 is mapped to gpio76
 where
On the BB Black, P8_39 is mapped to gpio76

     

    So, in the Adafruit BBIO example, you would use P8_39 (BB Black gpio76) to send a signal to BB AI P9_15 (gpio76).

     

    Or just do it via command line and set gpio76 as an output port.

     

    Ref:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/3HhyATlcZD0

    https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-beaglebone-io-python/issues/317

     

    Upgrade the bonescript code to fix .js issues:

    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/0G2Ivf9lQeA/mi28-AJODgAJ

     

     

    Nice Job.

  • in reply to jomoenginer

    Yes I followed the blocks and raised that issue on github.
    there is some work to be done to get back full BBIO compability, the Pinout is different for the BB Ai processor and the BBB so we either need a port, that corrects those numbers , or have compability sketch that we could just include that translates the physical Pinnumbers on the headers to the correct ones for the CPU.

    So fisrt we would have to figure out all the Pins and find oput how we can dynamically set them to IN/out/pwm mode

    this might get pretty tricky.
    As far as I can see most progress has been posted on element14.com/beaglebone so far around the web!

  • in reply to mayermakes

    The BB AI has a different Processor from say the BB Black, thus the pinout and mappings will be different.  The folks that manage the Adafruit BBIO would just have to add support for the new mapping to get it to support the BBIO which is why I posted an issue there.

      wrote:

     

    As far as I can see most progress has been posted on element14.com/beaglebone so far around the web!

    Much being pulled from the Google forums and other locations and just reported at element14, so I guess I would not agree completely with this statement.

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  • in reply to mayermakes

    The BB AI has a different Processor from say the BB Black, thus the pinout and mappings will be different.  The folks that manage the Adafruit BBIO would just have to add support for the new mapping to get it to support the BBIO which is why I posted an issue there.

      wrote:

     

    As far as I can see most progress has been posted on element14.com/beaglebone so far around the web!

    Much being pulled from the Google forums and other locations and just reported at element14, so I guess I would not agree completely with this statement.

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