My first cellphone-driven robot

经过两个多月断断续续的努力，我的手机机器人终于初具雏形了。目标是可以进行语音识别，语音提示，图像处理，指南针及GPS的全自控机械导航，用摄像头远程监控环境，精准测量距离，控制各种电器。超级大型号纸张打印，自动找到充电地点，等等。

通过开发他，我看到了二十一世纪初人类社会生产力的落后以及无穷尽的机会。

他刚刚出炉，问题很多，还很粗糙。

我会继续优化他，添加各种新的功能。使他更智能，更有趣，更有用。

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Yuh. This is tough. I didn’t even understand what Arduino was a few months ago. But hey "shut up and lemme go", there I went through people’s sarcastic remarks in every online forum or in real life where I asked naively about how to purchase chips, how to wire, how to program, how to control and how to make everything autonomous.

Sure, an IT guy is not just about soft and PCs…However geekily incredible, these days I would spit out two tech trends in my eyes in early 21st century: mobility (in which I am expert) and robotics. Robotics, I guess, is about how intelligent, how interesting and how much close people can reach them to actually benefit from. I am in love with robotics and every piece of hardware in the artificial intelligence.This is brand new to me and everything is exciting except soldering…

Here is my first hand-made robot after 2 month’s bumby discovery without knowing how much more intelligent and useful it can be…I am confident though.

1. Talking Tom repeats my voice command with a funny voice, and sends data to voice recognition application (JAVA coded) on my Android phone, via python script.

2. The command, after being processed, will be transmitted via cellphone’s Bluetooth to the microcontroller’s bluetooth module. This is the blinking Bluetooth bee I bought from Seeedstudio, plugged on the Xbee shield who is stacked seamlessly on Arduino: