Voice test reciting Asimov's robotic laws.

Thesis

I am still working on my appendices, I have asked my participants if it is OK to include their questionnaire answers in my thesis as full text. I need to format all of this so it all flows and corresponds and is clear for everyone to see in context.  

Animatronic

I have been working on programming some responses in the eliza chat scripture, I have always wanted to include Asimov's laws of robotics in a project as it sort of reminds me of robo cop for some reason so I took this opportunity to write a new voice app and put the laws as a simple trigger in eliza. I like the result so much i am tempted to keep it.

Feelings: I am still pretty annoyed at my China shipment, i am starting to think it has got lost in the post. I have emailed the company and they have assured me it is on its way so I will just have to take their word for it at this stage.

Evaluation: I am really happy with how the voice app is sounding, I changed the whole script and tried to model it a little bit on the ED2000 robot from robo cop.. I dont know how close I got to it in reality but it sounds ok to me. I will start programming some of the features in arduino and hopefully get a video of all the automated elements working together very shortly.

Analysis: The current state of the project makes sense to me, now I have the thesis almost finished bar reading through it for typos and maybe adding a few bits in here and there.

Conclusion: In conclusion I have enjoyed doing some programming today, its always a good feeling as its like giving the model a personality and starting from a blank slate gives endless possibilities so my mind is kind of on fire at the moment.

Action Plan: Keep programming and working on my thesis until my shipment arrives.