Minerva

Project Details

Project Year: 2021-2022

Project Type: Working Groups

Minerva is a fully controllable mannequin robot with motors, camera, a microphone, and small Linux based microcontroller, built by Professor Phil Ethington. This group explored topics in network architecture, object recognition, text-to-speech, locomotion, and 3D user interfaces.

Participants gathered for hands-on, informal, and collaborative tinkering for Raspberry Pi development on Tuesday evenings at 7pm at the Ahmanson Lab.