Tools/Materials Needed:
- Collaborative Robot
- Webcam
- Voice assistant (eg. Alexa)
- 3D Printer and filament
- Clay
Instructions:
- 3D print the Alexa and camera mount and the tools that the gripper will hold
- Download the Scorpion and Firefly plugins for grasshopper
- Connect your PC to the robot using an ethernet cable. Make sure the IP address matches on both
- Run the “ngrok” server from the command line
- Create an Alexa Skill with the online developer tools. Set the phrases you want it to register with “intents”, and set the endpoint to the address showing in ngrok
- Modify the python script with the interaction you want to communicate to the grasshopper script
- Run the grasshopper script