Filled with daft ideas

[hirez]

Boo. For a stupid set of reasons (While I like pottering in the garden-thing, I don't much care for the feeling of being observed doing same. Since we live in a terrace, this feeling is near permanent and yes I know at some level that no-one gives a bugger, but when I'm somewhat tired I don't want to be able to feel another mind within a half-mile

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[quercus]

...and it soon find itself a part in the Red Dwarf remake

[valkyriekaren]

It's been so bloody damp this summer the slugs/snails have got to everything.

[valkyriekaren]

Also, I think the swearbot needs a creative obscenity algorithm. I suggest the traditional [swearword]ing [animal] [bodypart].

[jarkman]

Forwards to tin robot heaven! I observe that eBay is riddled with the things.

[hirez]

Yes. There seems to be A Factory in China that emits quite nasty ones. I note that the UK wholesaler hath an website and that any number of tat-and-memorabilia-from-an-age-that-never-existed shops hold stock at remarkably similar prices. Along with enamelled adverts for Landies (that never existed), family card games (that no-one ever played. Although that's probably just my wonky excuse for a family) and other entertainments of a bygone age (like rickets and outside bogs).

So I have a robot with a body-cavity that's just about Arduino-uno sized. Although it would be much easier with a Pi, no doubt.

[jarkman]

You might want to talk to Russ about his recent ventures into sound sample playback in an embedded environment. Suspect it's exactly what you need.

[nalsa]

... in the voice of Brian Blessed or Tom Baker.

[hirez]

[FX: Scree scree scree]
"You, sir, are SHITE. Aargh."

Yes. I can see how that might work.

[valkyriekaren]

Nah, I reckon it should be in the voice of someone deeply inappropriate, like Moira Stewart. "Good evening, here is the news. You're a cocksucker."

[hirez]

I had thought to combine Inappropriate Robot with the old 'Posh birds swearing' project, but it doesn't feel like a good fit.

In my head, I have the idea of a Fast Show character in tin-robot form. Perhaps its simple wall-following behaviour will be punctuated by a loud 'Arse!' as it bounces off things. Also in my head is that the notion of a being that just stumbles about, swearing at inanimate objects, is actually quite tragic, and I want to build the thing to see how I and other people react to the thing. Call it an experiment into the edge of the Rod Brooks envelope.