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Thu 6 Nov 2008 | 19h15 GMT+1
Info: Terminator LEGO skull FanProject
Talking LEGO robot skull
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LEGO. Most of you must have build some spaceships, farms or other typical LEGO stuff when you were younger. Others have
been playing with the more advanced NXS kits that are sold these days (but thats even way past our childhood). And some of
you might still be playing with the stuff, as I do when visiting my brothers kids. But... some of us older folks can't stop
playing with them block... especially if one can create something as cool as a custom Endoskeleton Terminator.
After roaming the net for new interesting stuff to show to you folks, we came across the ThinkingBricks.com website, which
featured a freaking talking Endoskeleton Terminator skull, reciting lines
from the Terminator (and some other) movies.
Woah! This is sooo coool! We definately need to place this sucker into one of our FanProject pages.
So we contacted the site owner, who was just about to scratch the project. Due to our intervention, the Terminator
skull is still alive and kicking and lots more cool videos have been made since.
ThinkingBricks.com and TerminatorFiles.com are proud to announce a new FanProject
with detailed info in the making of this super LEGO figure, and maybe some day, we'd be able to provide you with a guide on
how to build your own version.
Check out the images and a motherload of videos or the robot reciting lines from different Arnold movies, of course especially
the Terminator kind.
And... and top of that, ThinkingBricks.com has also made a special for The Terminator Files. A promotional video, so to 'speak' ;).
Check out the images and the vids, buy yourself some bricks and start building!
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ThinkingBricks.com explains...
"My first LEGO creation in over 20 years! In August 2008, I ordered a few LEGO Mindstorms NXT sets for a project that I wanted
to build for decades. However, after the LEGO sets arrived, I quickly realized that my intended creation was too ambitious - I
hadn't created anything LEGO in over 20 years and I was unfamiliar with LEGO pieces created after 1985!"
"I gave up the original project and built this silly programmable talking LEGO robot
instead. This FanProject has been hastily documented with some images and videos so that I can tear it down and build something
new... (Thanks to the intervention of TerminatorFiles.com, it will LIVE, for now...)"
Basic workflow that created this LEGO abomination:
- LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable bricks were used to control the motors, the lighting of the eye, and to play
back each recorded syllable of the individual movie lines.
- A first generation MacBook. Apple Macintosh Text to Speech technology was used to translate text of the movie
lines to audible machine speech.
- AppleScript and Script Editor. Used to help select the default Macintosh Text to Speech voices and to read the
movie lines.
- WireTap Studio. Fantastic application used to record Macintosh System sounds as the movie lines were being
translated from Text to Speech.
- Apple Soundtrack Pro. The actual movie lines recited by the talking LEGO robot Skull had to be isolated to
individual syllables.
- wav2rso. A Perl script that converts *.wav files to *.rso files playable on the Mindstorms NXT brick.
- A first generation Tablet PC. Used to download the programs and the individual syllables of the movie lines
(*.rso files) onto the Mindstorms NXT brick using the LEGO NXT-G programming environment.
- A cheap consumer point and shoot digital camera captured all video and pictures.
- Final Cut Pro 5. Used to quickly edit this whole mess. Currently, all the videos (and images) are initial
test shots. Sorry, I rushed to document this project so that I could move on...
Click top link for this newest FanProject!
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