R.O.B.E.R.T PRIME 🦾🤖

Robotic Overlord Bent on Enslaving and Ruling Technology (Prime)
You can call me Robby.

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Overview

R.O.B.E.R.T is a robotics project designed to showcase the integration of Raspberry Pi with LEGO components and AI-powered image recognition & speech, all through a controlled web dashboard. This system explores the synergy between hardware and software in an engaging and educational way.

Prime version includes the dashbord in the same project as the API.

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Built With

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi – The core controller for R.O.B.E.R.T's operations
• BuildHAT – Provides seamless integration with LEGO motors and sensors
• LEGO Motors and Sensors – Drive and sensor capabilities using LEGO’s flexible components
• USB or Pi Camera – For vision and object recognition
• Coral USB Accelerator – Adds AI processing power for real-time image recognition

Software

Python

• Flask – API to handle requests and enable communication between the hardware and the web dashboard
• OpenCV – For computer vision tasks, including object detection and recognition

PHP

• Control Dashboard – A PHP-based dashboard to monitor and control R.O.B.E.R.T’s functions remotely

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Setup

Prerequisites

• Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi OS installed
• Python 3.x and required packages (see requirements.txt)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/r-/robert.git
   cd robert