The Pleo’s operating system uses 3 virtual machines running the PAWN scripting language to handle all the sensor input, animation output, and overall control of the built-in personality. Here is my first experiment in running Pleo code in the mysterious 4th virtual machine, the User VM. Pleo_Voice_200.zip Download and unzip this file, then copy the [...]
I’m eagerly awaiting delivery of my first Ugobe Pleo from eBay. Can’t wait to start programming!
I spend most of our 3-day weekend building sound insulation panels for my home green-screen insert stage. As you can see from the photo above the front room area I use for shooting tutorials is directly adjacent to a very busy road. My initial measurements with a Zoom audio recorder in the untreated room put [...]
Here’s a visual example of where 8-bit computers came from and where they are now: On the bottom, a Commodore 64 home computer…
As I’m starting to develop training materials for the Raspberry Pi I figured it was time to beef up my Linux skills and a Linux Mint install is a good starting point…
Apparently huge smoking metal towers that fall from the sky are bad for your health. Rediscovering the joys of a good side scroller…
Here is the finished prototype of the RoboShield, a robotics daughter-board for the Arduino microcontroller…