Robbie is in the
midst of a big update, with the CPU pegged at 100% it left no room
for further development also a slight bug would crash the whole
robot. My solution was to split up the computers on Robbie He now
runs a raspberry pi 3 for low level programs and the main computer
runs the higher level programs. The added advantage is Robbie now
uses less power and now can run for 4 hours as opposed to 20 minutes
before. Previously I used a kinect in the head to do face recognition
now Robbie has a RPI camera. Face recognition was never 100% I tried
openface and that works better, I just have to get it to run with
ROS. Getting ROS to work was difficult using Ubuntu mate 16.4 and Ros
kinetic worked but the TTS never worked reliably After switching to
Raspbian Jessie and compiling ROS from source it seem to work OK
Compiling works better when you increase the swap file size to 1024
