anthropomorph-EYES

Anthropomorph-EYES Goggle Adaptor

August 5, 2018spetku0 Comments

Earlier this year I created a circuit board called the “anthropomorphEYES“! It’s a 12-segment display of LEDs that I’ve provided a special 3D printable lens for that once added to the front of the board, allows them to appear more expressive. The idea is that you can add this set of boards to any of your favorite household appliances and elevate them from thing, to friend! The .stl files for the lens is available on my GitHub, along with the eye code sketch. I’ve written a blog post all about how you can edit my code to create your own custom expressions, and animate them into more complex displays of emotionality! I’ve made these because I personally believe it’s an important human quality that we share our empathy with the inanimate objects that fill our lives! Over the summer I’ve take the design of the lens a step further and…

Defining Personality and Emotions

March 15, 2018spetku0 Comments

If you just received a set of anthropomorphEYES in the mail and are jouncing to do something special with them *wink* – I will walk you through the process so you can create a personality for your appliance that is all its own. To reprogram your eye boards, you’ll need an AVR programmer of some flavor: …and a 2×3 segment of extended male pin headers: The shorter end of the pin header goes in the programmer’s cable doodad like so: This allows you the straddle a row of pins along the top and bottom of your eye board so that all of the pins make contact with the programming pads (the side of the cable with the red stripe should line up with the little arrow on the board): Once aligned properly, all you need do is pinch the headers to make firm contact with the board while you are…

Anthropomorph-EYEs Your Appliances!

March 7, 2018spetku0 Comments

I grew up watching the movie, “The Brave Little Toaster”, so as a child I believed the objects in my life were secretly alive. It was not because I lacked the intelligence to tell that a chunk of plastic and circuit boards didn’t possess the biological features which deem something to be living… I just simply *chose* to see that they were; in the face of the reality I knew and understood. As an adult, nothing has changed! This recognition of ‘self’ in the inanimate is still a big part of who I am, and ultimately what results in weekend projects like these sparkly expressive eyes. Now you too can give one of your kitchen or household friends their very own window to the soul, so they too can express emotions like you do. You can find my Anthropomorph-EYEs on my Tindie Store, Robohemian! They come in four different colors…