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🎙 Making Companion Bots // Virtually Maker Faire 2020

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During the COVID-19 stay at home orders, a group of makers have been focusing on our personal robotic projects to help us through the isolation. For Virtually Maker Faire, they share our robots and explain a bit more about them and our prototyping process.

// 🤖 MEET THE BOTS:

Nova: A fluffy shoulder companion that lights up and reacts to touch. She is worn like a scarf and uses two servos to create movements that invite people to interact with her. Learn more about Nova on Angela’s Hackaday project page https://hackaday.io/project/169449-nova-a-companion-bot

Dexter: A high-fiving fun monkey bot. He is fully 3D-printed, with a PIR sensor so he can sense when people are near and high five them. He also has an animated LED eye matrix for multiple emotions.
https://www.hackster.io/Odd_Jayy

Fenrir: Alex’s fennec fox with an AI heart. A new sibling for Archimedes (the owl familiar), Fen is designed to help with daily tasks including transcribing dreams, and experiments in defeating facial recognition technology.
https://www.hackster.io/glowascii

// 🛠️ MEET THE MAKERS:

Alex Glow
Alex creates videos about electronics at Hackster.io, and shares projects including her robot owl familiar Archimedes, music that has orbited the Earth, and LED temporary tattoos. She loves to hack on robots, music, wearables, bikes, cults, language, hackerspaces, brains & dreaming, holography, and more.
https://twitter.com/glowascii/

Jorvon Moss
Jorvon Moss, Odd_Jayy friends call him Jayy. He's a a maker and tinkerer from Compton, has been featured in Hackspace Magazine, and has done talks at both Maker Faire and Hackaday Supercon.
https://twitter.com/Odd_Jayy
https://www.instagram.com/odd_jayy/

Angela Sheehan
Angela (Gella) is a maker, artist, and educator passionate about wearable technology, product design, and digital fabrication. She has published over 50 online how-tos and loves to teach others how to make playful and interactive electronic projects.
https://twitter.com/the_gella
https://www.gellacraft.com