Topic: Pleopatra Tools (Read 36289 times)

Blackhalflife · « **on:** August 14, 2009, 03:57:49 AM »

Hi!

The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has released a new website about Pleopatra Tools, a software to control Pleo, together with a Java API.

Pleopatra Tools make it possible to:

Connect to your Pleo
Save personalized informations about your Pleo
To record audio an play it
To show and play emotion-, sound-, and personality-files
Show camera pictures
connect your Pleo to twitter (like http://www.twitter.com/pleopatra)

You can also find a documentation about pleo (39 pages, german) on our website

You can find the website at:
http://www.dfki.de/pleopatra

Download: http://pleopatratools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pleopatratools/

-----German-----

Hallo!

Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) hat eine Website zu Pleopatra Tools gestartet, eine Software zum Steuern von Pleo über den PC, verbunden mit einer Java API, die es leicht ermöglicht eigene Applikationen zu schreiben.

Pleopatra Tools bietet unter anderem folgende Funktionen:

Herstellen einer Verbindung zu einem Pleo
Speicherung von personalisierten Informationen zu verschiedenen Pleos
Aufnehmen über Pleo direkte Wiedergabe über den PC
Anzeigen und Abspielen Sound-, Bewegungs-, und Persönlichkeits-Dateien
Anzeige aktueller Kamera-Bilder
Twitter-Anbindung (Pleo twitter sein aktuelles Befinden)

Außerdem wurde eine ausführliche Dokumentation zu Pleo erstellt (39 Seiten), die auf der Website heruntergeladen werden kann.

Die Adresse ist:
http://www.dfki.de/pleopatra

InmemoryofRomeo · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:35:49 AM »

Sounds great

I'll check it out

CleosDad · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2009, 07:37:54 AM »

It looks great! Similar to DinoMite, but less clunky. I just wish I would have paid better attention in my german class in high school.

There's interesting info in another thread about Jetta releasing a PDK in september too.
I may not sell Cleo after all!

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2009, 08:47:31 AM »

The software is english, and if you have questions you can ask us (in english

)

Crystal:. · « **Reply #4 on:** August 14, 2009, 11:06:49 AM »

This looks really interesting. I'll check it out.

shadow · « **Reply #5 on:** August 14, 2009, 01:08:34 PM »

Quote from: Blackhalflife on August 14, 2009, 08:47:31 AM

The software is english, and if you have questions you can ask us (in english )

Is there a way to sign up to be notified when the software is available for download? (my german's feeble but my capsule summary of the download page would be it's coming and I can't have it yet?)

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #6 on:** August 14, 2009, 03:03:40 PM »

Quote from: shadow on August 14, 2009, 01:08:34 PM

Is there a way to sign up to be notified when the software is available for download? (my german's feeble but my capsule summary of the download page would be it's coming and I can't have it yet?)

The program works allready, but there are some lines of code we want to rewrite before we release the tool. If you can't wait, you can send us a mail (pleopatra@dfki.de) and we will send you a first preview version in about a week.

InmemoryofRomeo · « **Reply #7 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:18:40 PM »

I'm content to wait for the tested version (oh and thank you for an English version, translators only get you so far

) it does sound like it has a few more features than Dinomite

Definitely looking forward to it

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #8 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:26:44 PM »

Yes, it does have some new features: You can now record audio files and play them on your computer immediatly after recording. (With the API you can also save them as wav-Files), you can take pictures with the build in camera and display them on the computer (without putting the sd card in your computer) and save them as bmp-File (using the API) and the greates thing: your Pleo can twitter about his feelings now (like http://www.twitter.com/Pleopatra) unfortunality only in german (yet).

Pleopatra Tools (and the API) is open source, so you can expand it and create your own apps to control your pleo.

grumpy · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:32:36 PM »

Ooooo! I like that last part!

Could be dangerous if Dr. Mel is listening . . .

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:41:26 PM »

Oh, is Dr. Mel able to write Java programs?

mweed · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:46:46 PM »

Dr. Mel is the evil mad scientist from the Bob the Pleo comic strip. Since his goal is to destroy all pleos . . .

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2009, 05:53:02 PM »

i know

allosaurus · « **Reply #13 on:** August 14, 2009, 07:11:38 PM »

Quote from: grumpy on August 14, 2009, 05:32:36 PM

Ooooo! I like that last part!

Could be dangerous if Dr. Mel is listening . . .

GRUMPY!

You want to control yourself!? D:

NarcissaABlack · « **Reply #14 on:** August 21, 2009, 08:54:57 AM »

Question: for the twitter page, can you use an existing one, since I'm a web craze person, and I want to make a twitter page for my pleo. But I wouldn't want to get one and then have to get a brand new one for this tool to work.

justbede · « **Reply #15 on:** August 21, 2009, 12:35:40 PM »

Yeah im curious about the twitter feature too, does anyone know if the pleo just leaves an emoticon or if the software actually interprets pleos mood and puts together a micro blog?

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2009, 08:36:30 AM »

Quote from: NarcissaABlack on August 21, 2009, 08:54:57 AM

Question: for the twitter page, can you use an existing one, since I'm a web craze person, and I want to make a twitter page for my pleo. But I wouldn't want to get one and then have to get a brand new one for this tool to work.

you can use an existing account, or you can create a new, as you can see here: http://www.dfki.de/pleopatra/screens/twitter.jpg you just have to enter a username and a password.

@justbede: pleo tools react on changing sensor, e.g. if pleo eats he will twitter "mhhh, taste good" or something like this, if you shake him around he will say sth like "i'm feeling sick". at the moment the pleopatra tools only speaks german, but its no problem to change the language to english (an exmaple twitter account can be found here: http://twitter.com/Pleopatra)

justbede · « **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2009, 10:48:29 AM »

I had a look and its a great idea its actually surprising now looking back that no one thought to make this feature earlier. Is there any chance in the future that we could gain access to the responses given for different sensory feedback so as to customise them? eg a tap on the back would result in a "someones not worried about my paintwork" keep up the great work.

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #18 on:** August 23, 2009, 05:28:56 AM »

yes, that's allready possible now! each "trigger" (e.g. a sensor) has a txt-file with some tweets, the program chosse one of them (random) an send it to twitter. so if you want to customise the tweets you just have to change the txt-files

you can also add your own triggers, because the software is open source

justbede · « **Reply #19 on:** August 23, 2009, 03:15:01 PM »

Thats a really nice and intuative way of doing it, just a couple of questions (sorry:p). Does pleo have to be constantly connected to a computer to tweet or does he some how save the data for uploading later? Thumbs up for being open source

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #20 on:** August 24, 2009, 03:58:40 AM »

yes, pleo have to be connected and we think it's the idea of twitter to send real time messages. until the pdk (pleo development kit) isn't published it won't be possible to control pleo while he isn't connected to a pc

justbede · « **Reply #21 on:** August 24, 2009, 04:27:54 AM »

ah right, thanks for the info

Blackhalflife · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2009, 06:36:41 AM »

good news!

you can find Pleopatra Tools now at SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pleopatratools and download the code via svn http://pleopatratools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pleopatratools/

justbede · « **Reply #23 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:06:14 AM »

i can't find the download do you have to be registered or something?
*Update* i think i've found them, sorry.

Dadio · « **Reply #24 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:09:51 AM »

http://pleopatratools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pleopatratools/

is the link which gets you into the file download area.
Beware though this is shaky s/w at best. I received it via email and the author, Christoph cautions against "rookie"

use. But
he is looking for help in cleaning and updating it.

And it is great news Blackhalflife. Thank you!

Bob the Pleo Forums

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