AIY Voice Kit with LEDs and Servo Motors

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Channel: Caroline Dunn · 2018 · Science & Technology

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In this video, we control 2 servo motors and 4 LEDs with the AIY Voice Kit by Google. This project is a Google Home voice assistant with local commands and Adafruit's Adabot design with 2 arms waiving and 4 LEDs along the top that light up.

Pre-requisites:
1) Cloudspeech demo - https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice-v1/#makers-guide-change-to-the-cloud-speech-api
2) LED video - https://youtu.be/UUunyu2Ua14
3) Servo Motor video - https://youtu.be/pr1-gUE9W-I

GitHub instructions: https://github.com/carolinedunn/AIY_Kit-LED-Servo

Source Code: https://github.com/carolinedunn/AIY_Kit-LED-Servo/blob/master/servo-led.py

Materials:
Google AIY Voice Kit - https://amzn.to/2pUGQPT
Raspberry Pi 3B - https://amzn.to/2Ea0A6B
8GB MicroSD Card - https://amzn.to/2pZuEga
4 LEDs - https://amzn.to/2IZvlhh
330 Ohm Resistors - https://amzn.to/2KcDpwH
Servo motors - https://amzn.to/2EVyhsG
Header pins - https://amzn.to/2J1tI2r
Soldering Iron - https://amzn.to/2qFNCbJ
3D printer - https://amzn.to/2HQDzZE
Green Hatchbox filament - https://amzn.to/2Hlig1p

Original Adafruit Adabot design - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2709085


AIY Voice Kit - https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice-v1/
MagPi Projects Guide - https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Essentials_AIY_Projects_Voice_v1.pdf

Pre-Requisite: You must complete the CloudSpeech exercise (enable billing) before you start this project. https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice-v1/#makers-guide-change-to-the-cloud-speech-api

My GitHub page: https://github.com/carolinedunn

If you are having issues, please check the forums for help: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=114

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