A Thermistor is a component which changes its resistance in relation to the temperature around it. We’ll use multiple ones along with regular resistors to measure the temp within the various cells of our new LifePO4 Battery pack to make sure nothing is heating up inside of it.
This uses a simple Arduino Sketch and just these handful of components to measure these localized temperatures quite accurately. If this kind of project is one you are planning yourself, or if you’re just interested to see these Thermistors in action, then check out this video.
If you like our new Arduino Multi Temp Sensor Youtube video, please do give us a thumbs up as that really encourages us to produce more content like this, and many other topics, as we build our dream robot, one circuit at a time.
In this video, we’ll show some of the capabilities of the MOVI Voice Recognition Shield for the Arduino. It’s also been made to work with the Raspberry Pi and other Micro Controller boards as well, but we’ll show its stuff using an Arduino Mega clone. MOVI stands for ‘My Own Voice Interface’ and is made by a company called Audeme, which created it about four or five years ago using a Kickstarter campaign. While this older tech hasn’t caught fire to any great degree, we feel it’s a strong contender to bring voice recognition to our future robot without having to depend on online services like the Amazon Echo or Google’s Home Assistant. We feel that having voice recognition integrated directly into our robot’s circuitry for interpretation and speech responses is better solution in terms of privacy.
While the trend has seemed to be more towards using the power of servers on the internet for many complex functions like this, a solution that is directly on a device is starting to become possible. This Arduino shield can understand English sentences and respond in it’s own voices as well.
Apple recently announced plans in their most recent developers conference to move voice recognition processing directly onto their devices rather than connecting to the internet for the processing power, and thus provide a more private data experience. They ended up negating their moves to protect privacy with recent decisions regarding their iCloud picture data, but will still likely have an onboard voice recognition solution in their phones and devices in the near future.
If it’s good enough for Apple, it’s good enough for our future dream robot, so join us as we explore the MOVI Voice Recognition Shield’s capabilities in this area. We’ll be talking with our microcontroller and it will talk back too, so if this interests you, please watch our video.
Hope you enjoy checking out the MOVI Shield so you can consider if it will work with your future projects.
