The Ruiz Brothers have penned a information on recreating certainly one of science fiction’s most memorable back-talking somewhat-murderous synthetic intelligences: HAL 9000, the very-much-not-an-IBM from 2001: A Area Odyssey.
“Powered by the Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather and CircuitPython, this venture makes use of Adafruit’s greatest arcade button to set off audio samples,” the Ruiz Brothers clarify of their newest venture for Adafruit’s instructional portal. “Because of superior built-in capabilities of the Prop-Maker feather, we do not even should do any soldering on this venture, all wiring might be performed with the terminal blocks and a screwdriver!”
It isn’t the primary time Adafruit has hosted a information on constructing your individual HAL 9000: an earlier incarnation designed by Phillip Burgess was powered by an Arduino UNO and an Adafruit Wave Defend, and required some mild soldering. A transfer to the Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather, although, means a simplified circuit — and no soldering required.
“The enclosure is comprised of 3D-printed elements which are mounted along with machine screws,” the Ruiz Brothers write of the compact desktop housing for the notorious machine, which writer Arthur C. Clarke all the time denied was impressed by the output of IBM — regardless of the letters “HAL” every being one again within the alphabet from the corporate’s identify. “The Feather’s USB port is accessible on the aspect of the prop for powering and reprogramming.”
The Adafruit RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather was designed particularly to make it simpler to construct initiatives involving mild and sound, combining a Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller with a screw-terminal NeoPixel LED port, a three-watt Class D amplifier, an accelerometer with faucet detection, and a servo connector. To this, the venture provides a speaker, a light-up 100mm (round 3.94″) arcade button which additionally serves as HAL’s glowing “eye,” and quick-connect wires to convey every thing collectively.
The construct is powered by an RP2040 Prop-Maker Feather, held in place on a 3D-printed mount. (📷: Adafruit)
As soon as constructed, the CircuitPython-powered venture performs pre-recorded samples, created utilizing the text-to-speech performance constructed into Apple’s macOS, every time the button is hit — and helps further audio information, must you want to create your individual or take samples from the movie itself.
The complete information is now out there on Adafruit’s studying portal.
