P-06: Robotic Coworking

Tools/Materials Needed:

  • Collaborative Robot
  • Webcam
  • Voice assistant (eg. Alexa)
  • 3D Printer and filament
  • Clay

Instructions:

  1. 3D print the Alexa and camera mount and the tools that the gripper will hold
  2. Download the Scorpion and Firefly plugins for grasshopper
  3. Connect your PC to the robot using an ethernet cable. Make sure the IP address matches on both
  4. Run the “ngrok” server from the command line
  5. 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
  6. Modify the python script with the interaction you want to communicate to the grasshopper script
  7. Run the grasshopper script