[Spykee]

I'm just about to start a little chatbot project that uses Spykee, the wifi robot from Meccano:
http://spykeeworld.com/

I will give him speech, the one out of the box doesn't do that, and use an AIML based chatbot program for his brain.

I little talking robot that runs around the house. They are dirt cheap from eBay nowadays.

What do you think?

[Art]

Oddly, my Windows 7 warned me NOT to visit that particular site.

Something about trying to obtain private information.

[Spykee]

Yeah I Know, totally bonkers, both my windows XP IE8 and Mac OSX Safari go into virus/malware meltdown.
And thats the official Meccano Spykee website.

They should come down like a ton of bricks on the company that does their website.

[Art]

Look at your position. One post (your first) and it warns people of potential malware and hijacks...not good.

People are rightfully cautious these days and I'm sure you meant well.

Perhaps there's a link to it somewhere else like YouTube or such....


OK... just found one...Try:
http://www.spykee.org/

[Spykee]

OK, sorry about that. I will update the thread when I've made some progress.

[Freddy]

Welcome to the forum Spykee 

[Spykee]

Thank you for the welcome Freddy

[Data]

I can’t view http://spykeeworld.com/ unless I go to the US site, the UK and International sites say I need flash 8 installed, but I already have flash 10.1 in. 

I can however view the 100% unofficial site @ http://www.spykee.org/

Welcome to the forum Spykee and good luck with your project.

[Spykee]

Thank you Datahopa.

Have taken delivery of my new Spykee, well, second hand from eBay but new to me. Had fun building it from about a couple hundred bits, took a couple of hours to build but was fun. Just like being a kid again, although I remember the old Meccano being metal instead of plastic. (I guess plastic wasn't invented in those days)

Now I have it whizzing around the house, making beeping sounds and entertaining the kids. (And getting it in the neck from the wife for wasting sixty quid on a silly toy) I have yet to convince her it's for my latest programming project.

Wish these things were around when I was a kid, would have had a blast.

I'm just hoping the novelty will wear off real soon so I can actually start to build the software for him.

[Data]

Got to say that sounds like a lot of fun. Worth getting it in the neck for.

May the fun continue into your programming.

[Art]

Yes, Remember:

We don't quit laughing because we grow old.

We grow old because we quit laughing!!

 

[Spykee]

This is what i'll be using to create the new software for Spykee:

Visual Studio 2010
C# .NET 3.5
program # - AIML Interpreter C# .NET

Downloaded the AIMLBot.dll and created a sample WIndows Console program. Been modifying and tinkering with the .aiml files a bit, but would probably not spend too much time just yet. Want to get it working end to end, and these are more than enough to get him talking.

Doing the Speech tonight, should'nt be too difficult as i see a built in one for .NET 3.5. (System.speech)

My research prior showed Microsoft SAPI, so can use that if the built in one isn't any good. I suspect they are most probably one in the same though.

[Spykee]

The speech went really well, the built in one has three or four different voices, all pretty robotic sounding, which is great seing as it's going to be for a robot.

Microsoft Mary, Microsoft Mike, Microsoft Sam, and a generic Microsoft one. I'll opt for Mike, he's more Stephen Hawking sounding, in fact I recon he came in personally and did if for them.

Now working on the User Interface to replace the plain old Windows Console.

[Freddy]

I'll opt for Mike, he's more Stephen Hawking sounding, in fact I recon he came in personally and did if for them.

That made me chuckle.

Maybe you could put together a video when you are finished ?

[Spykee]

lol, yes of course, will definitely do a YouTube jobby