Larry's Workbench

About Larry's Workbench

I just wanted to design a simple, kid-friendly robotics project. Then it snowballed...

Floyd is a small robot with a big personality and an IQ around 155. He can talk for hours on virtually any topic, in 50 different languages. Onboard, Floyd runs a Raspberry Pi 4B, which connects to OpenAI for his speech abilities.

Prior to this build I had never written any Python in my life, but I used ChatGPT as an assistant / tutor and that accelerated my learning curve by probably about 5x.

Chassis & Arm: Hiwonder.com
USB Microphone & Speaker: Adafruit.com
Inspiration: DevMiser's "DaVinci" project
github.com/LarrysWorkbench

Initially, this project cost about $400 and took up a good portion of my spare time over like 3 months.

Our goals are to see what's involved in building a fully conversational bot, see how people respond to it, and to continue adding features like visual image recognition, more memory, etc. Please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments!