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Mr. Truman - An Embedded Friend

Created by
Spencer Fricke, Maxwell Strange, Eric Heinz
Jan 29, 2018

Skill Level Area of Focus Operating System
Advanced 3D Printing & Modeling,Embedded, Gaming,Sensors Linux

We created a virtual person that lives in a 3D printed house. You can interact with him via voice control, by plugging in a 3.5mm cable to your phone, or tilting him. The idea behind Mr. Truman is to have a virtual person inside the house interact with the real-world house. Check out this short video for a full demonstration of the project in action plus details on the components and design.

Objective

This project was created for our ECE 453 Embedded Capstone course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We wanted to run with the idea of an animated man who had a house he interacted with. We picked the DragonBoard™ 410c to power it as we needed a dedicated GPU to power our graphics and handle our voice recognition audio processing. We wanted a project that people would say "that's so cool" when they saw it.

Embedded
Embedded

Build / Assembly Instructions

Materials Required / Parts List / Tools

Source Code / Source Examples / Application Executable

Additional Resources

  • Video of Project in action.

Build / Assembly

  • Order PCB.
  • Solder all parts to it.
  • 3D print house.
  • Run Linux setup in docs.
  • Run make file from source file.

Usage Instructions

Plug in power.

DragonBoard™ 410c with custom PCB
DragonBoard™ 410c mounted on back of PCB
 
Embedded
Embedded

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Project Authors
Spencer Fricke, Maxwell Strange, Eric Heinz
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