Chat with Lucy!
This recipe is based on IBM TJBot and uses the Watson Assistant and other Watson services to turn Lucy into a chatting robot.
Some possible things to tell her:
- "Lucy how are you?" - To get to know about her feelings.
- "Hello Lucy" - Lucy will say hello and waves her arm.
- "Lucy turn the light to red" - Switch the LED to the given color.
- "Lucy start disco party" - Rotate through all LED colors.
- "What time is it, Lucy?" - Lucy tells you the time.
- "Lucy what is this?" - Lucy takes a photo and tries to guess what she sees.
- "Lucy go to bed" - Ends the conversation
This recipe requires a TJBot with a microphone, a speaker, a LED, a servo arm and a camera.
First, make sure you have configured your Raspberry Pi for TJBot by following the bootstrap instructions.
To use the LED and Audio in paralled I use an external USB sound card.
To get this up and running Audio must be blacklisted, but not all modules!
After bootstrap script has been run enter
$ sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/tjbot-blacklist-snd.conf
and delete the last line:
$ blacklist snd
Save the changes and restart the system.
Next, go to the lucy folder and install the dependencies.
$ cd lucy
$ npm install
Import the workspace-lucy.json file into the Watson Assistant service and note the workspace ID.
Create instances of all the required Watson services and note the authentication credentials.
Make a copy the default configuration file and update it with the Watson service credentials and the conversation workspace ID.
$ cp config.default.js config.js
$ nano config.js
<enter your service credentials and the conversation workspace ID in the specified places>
sudo node lucy.js
Note the
sudocommand. Root user access is required to run TJBot recipes.
This project is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.