Johnny Pi, I am your father — part 0

This is a sneak peek at my next series of articles, where I will show you how to control a Raspberry Pi-based GoPiGo robot with:

• an AWS IoT Button,
• a joystick connected to an Arduino Yùn,
• a custom Alexa skill triggered by an Amazon Echo.

The robot will be able to:

• move around,
• measure the distance to the object in front it,
• identify the object in front of it, thanks to local inference with Apache MXNet,
• identify objects and people, thanks to Amazon Rekognition,
• speak, thanks to Amazon Polly,
• post pictures to the @CallMeJohnnyPi account on Twitter.

I will share everything on Github as we go.

There’s a ton of stuff to cover, but since I’m sure you don’t want to wait for 10 or 15 articles to see this thing running, here’s a sneak preview ;)

Well, this should be fun. Now let’s start to write! As always, I’m available at @julsimon for questions and discussion.

Part 1: moving around

Part 2: the joystick

Part 3: adding cloud-based speech

Part 4: cloud-based vision

Part 5: local vision

Part 6: the IoT button

Part 7: adding an Alexa skill