The choice of a 4GB Raspberry 4B for the higher brain is based purely on computing power. An alternative that I recommend is Khadas VIM3. Because of m...

@frogandtoad Computer virus. Within 30 minutes it had worked its way around every protection I had put in place to limit its propagation. But here is ...

@frogandtoad You are welcome. Science is about sharing knowledge. I, however, after decades of NDAs am highly aware of my need to protect certain know...

@frogandtoad The MyMate series of robots are proprietary to me. My 'cluster bot' that is my ultimate goal for private purposes only and will not be sh...

@frogandtoad As mentioned previously, I am providing SOME design concepts here for community consumption. These concepts are to increase public knowle...

The MyMate series is my creation and is aimed at some long term projects including the MyProspector robotic prospecting cluster. There is no website a...

FidoBot is also meant to be a companion bot. But more importantly, this is a robotics project, not a home automation project. 'Guard dog' is a 'define...

@frogandtoad Yeah, maybe not. He destroyed the Jupiter 2's navigational system. Don't need that in my apartment.

As to the 'emotional' side of the robot's 'cognition', I will be implementing an artificial endocrine system that affects the decision-making process ...

@frogandtoad That is what I meant by that :D

@frogandtoad My honours degree is in AI. I've been experimenting with it for decades. But we now live in an era where tiny and powerful computers are ...

@frogandtoad I thought it was implied that (on most personal Linux systems) you would be logged in on your account. On public systems, you would be un...

You could do that but this method is more instructive and using sudo defeats the purpose of the lesson. I do agree that unless you are a system admini...

Okay, let me elaborate. FidoBot is an indoor bot. It will have true vision (stereoscopic) and true hearing (stereoscopic). It can turn its head to 'fo...