Ollie is a DIY autonomous robotic blimp who is vulnerable, socially awkward and yearns for attention. Ollie is developed by Pritika Nilaratna.
[Pritika] is a user experience design student at Parsons who just finished up an autonomous blimp project designed to react to voices and communicate, “his friendliness and eagerness to be noticed.”
The instructable [Pritika] posted goes through the build – a 850mAh LiPo battery powers an Arduino Pro Mini, which controls two 3.6 gram servos. While not much in the way of electronics, the real beauty behind this build is the implementation. From watching the video of Ollie interacting with people, we’re pretty sure [Pritika] met her objective of making her pet blimp friendly and unobtrusive.
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Interesting comments on her blog esp from 84 year old.
The interaction between people in Ollies environment and Ollies are worth investigating .
Ollie from Pritika Nilaratna on Vimeo.
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