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.
MOVI Voice Recognition Arduino Shield
Monthly Archives: August 2021
New YouTube Video on Extruded Aluminum
In this video we will be using Extruded Aluminum to build our robot’s Chest frame in which we’ll be able to start populating it with various electronic circuits and batteries. While our specific project is robot related, this will mostly cover the construction techniques and parts needed when working with Extruded Aluminum, so even those who have other types of projects in mind will hopefully find this helpful.
We picked Extruded Aluminum for its light weight, strength and flexibility. There are a myriad of parts you can use to assemble this material, and we’ll show you most of them, as we bought a good variety to test during this build. We’re using the 1010 Series (about 1 inch square, or 25.4 millimeters) from the 80/20, Inc. manufacturer, but there are other suppliers as well in different sizes to meet the needs for a variety of project ideas you might have. This material has been used to build 3D Printers, furniture, van conversion cabinet framing and has even been used in larger sizes for various forms of construction finishes.
Extruded Aluminum, while very versatile, is also a bit pricing. We’d quoted an average cost of around $5/foot in the video, but in reality, the limited stock we go, even with our shipping tip, came out to around $6.26 per foot. Ordering in larger quantities, as we’d summarized we would, will drop the cost per foot, but don’t forget about the connecting parts which will add to the cost. If you need the ability, though, to adjust things on the fly, or reimagine your structure setup, this can very easily make up for that extra cost. Additionally, being constructed out of aluminum, really gives it an advantage when strength is needed, but the weight of steel creates problems.
We hope you like our video and appreciate you checking it out.
Stay safe!