Building a home robot: Part 7 - the front RGB LED display

Building a home robot: Part 7 - the front RGB LED display

"Roobert" HomeRobot Robotics Raspberry Pi

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A Raspberry Pi touchscreen is used to show Rooberts face. So it can´t be used to show status information like battery state or the “feelings” of its python finite state machine.

Fortunately the body front was still missing – so this seemed to be a good place to mount additional optical output.

I tried several small LCD- and OLED Displays, but they didn’t please me.

In the end I used an 8x8 Neopixel array, a 24 Neopixel ring and a 1 Neopixel lighted big button.

In the beginning the 8x8 pixel array was too bright to see the 8x8 pixel as one image. After attaching a 3d printed cover it looked like quadratic pixels.

The python code can read a GIF file and display it on the 8x8 pixel display. When in idle mode, Roobert shows a beating heart GIF.

The outer ring of Neopixels shows the battery state when driving around and the buttons Neopixel glows up when it seems to be a good idea to press it now.

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Categories: "Roobert" HomeRobot , Robotics , Raspberry Pi

Tags: Neopixel , Robot

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