Inventing and Prototyping Social Devices

1
Inventing and Prototyping Social Devices

• Edited and presented by
• Michael Winter
• Stupid Fun Club, LLC

2
Stupid Fun Club, LLC
3
Stupid Fun Club, LLC

• Think Tank

4
Stupid Fun Club, LLC

• Please ask questions

5
What we do

• Explore
• Human / Machine interaction
• Machine / Machine Interaction

6
Where we do it

• Robot prototypes
• TV / Film
• Parties

7
Why

• Interesting
• Fun

8
Who is interested?

• VC
• Phone Companies
• Appliance Manufacturers
• Entertainment (Film / TV)
• Web Companies

9
Hardware
10

• Embedded Systems (of course)

11
and Sensors
Accelerometer
Compass
Distance
Capacitive
12
and Displays
LED RGB Matrix
OLED
LED (SMD)
LCD
13
and Actuators
Linear Actuator
Actuator (Servo)
14
and Audio
MP3 player
15
and Audio In
Digital Mic
Analog
16
and Communication
ZigBee
WiFi
Bluetooth
17
Being Social
18
Being Anti-Social
War
Isolation
TV Remote
19
Being Sort of Social
20
Being SocialHuman - Machine

• Conversational
• Gesture
• Proximity

21
Meet Mr. Cool
22
Being SocialMachine - Machine

• How many computers needed in the world?
• 5
• Off by 4.

23
Mr Cool and Hotsy Talk

• Out Loud
• Greeting, Goodbyes, Get commands (Open, cook)
• Make recommendation
• Gossip, Joke, Converse
• Lie

• Back-channel
• Capabilities
• Exchange data about humans
• (relationship, age, weight, machine uses,
  machine abuses,)
  
• Lie

24
Society of MP3 Players
25
Friends
MP3 Players

• (not R2D2)

PartyBot
CopyCats
Remote
26
How they TalkHardware and protocols

• ZigBee is the name of a specification for a suite
  of high level communication protocols using
  small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE
  802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area
  networks (WPANs). From Wikipedia
• 300 feet
• Low speed

27
How they TalkSFC protocol

• Clear Text
• Promiscuous
• Examples

28
Making prototypes
29
Making prototypes
Get outside advice before proceeding
Aleksei Leonov
Dumitru Dorin Prunariu
30
Making prototypesDo it Fast

• POC 1 week
• Version 0.9 4 weeks
• Read to Show 2 weeks

31
Early considerations

• Data acquisition
• Debugging

32
Real Time Data Acquisition

• Dont lose your data!
• How fast are the sensors? Fast enough?
• Will the processor drop data?
• Strategies
• UARTS and buffers
• Interrupts
• Multi-processor (the Propeller chip)

33
Real Time Data Acquisition
34
Propeller Chip

• 8 Processors in one chip

35
Debugging

• Visual LCD, LEDs, Monitors
• Audio Beeps
• Data Loggers
• Onboard Logic Analyzer
• 2 Ms/s sample rates
• 20 channels (16 for I/Os and 4 for Vdd, Res,
  Sout, Sin)
  
• Thresholds set at 1.4V and 0.8V, supporting TTL
  and CMOS
  
• Small size (3.25 L x 1.95 W x 1.67 T cm / 1.28" L
  x 0.77" W x 0.66 T)
  

36
Debugging

• Everything in one OLED Multicore processor
• Real simultaneous multi-processing
• 96 x 96 Full color display

37
Build it
38
Machine ToolsMake it all
Dad!

• CNC

39
Stupid Fun Shop
40
Electronics

• Mouser etc
• Trossen Robotics, Kronos, Parallax
• Best place is.

41
Servos

• Old school forget about them
• Actuators Bioloid from Robotis
• High Resolution
• Set Speed
• Set Torque
• Read back positional data
• PID
• 1Mbps interfaces

42
Servos
43
Electronics building

• Wiring NASA Workmanship Standards
• (soldering, crimping, restraining)
• SparkFun Tutorials
• (SMD soldering, PCB layout)

44
Other Stuff

45
Other Stuff Reading

• Reference work on social interaction
• Its a Must Read!

46
Understanding Comics

• Facial features and Body Language
• LOD

47
Other Stuff Events

• MakerFaire (and Make Magazine)

48

• Robot Wars

49

• Gadgetoff

Michael Winter had us all giddy and wanting to
sign-up for the pioneering playfulness of the
Stupid Fun Club.
50

51

• Burning Man

52

• Fundraiser show off your gadgets, make
  contacts
  
• Writers
• Standup comedians
• Actors

• Social behavior is their JOB.