Best microphone and speaker

[sbondi65]

Hi all,

Enjoying this cool robot

I am writing an app called “Artificial Life” where it will do things that make it appear life-like. To do this, in addition to other things, I would like it to detect when music is playing (to start dancing on its own) and to make sounds (maybe a voice, maybe beeps).

1. Can anyone recommend a specific model of microphone and a specific model speaker that work well with now? If so, please list where I typically may purchase them.

2. Alternatively, is it possible for HEXA to access the remote/phone app to use its microphone?

3. Every time I try to upload a “Test Skill”, I get an error message that says “try later” Is this working?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[rizwok]

Regarding #1, for the speaker I’ve ised https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HB18IZ4/ and it works well. Its small enough to fit directly in the port, but does look a bit odd. For the mic, I’d love to hear what others have gotten working given that the hexa has a line_in and not mic_in (See https://forum.vincross.com/t/capture-sound-from-the-mic-and-save-to-a-file for details).

[linge.zhang]

Hi Steve,

For the issue you met when you editing your Test Skill. We’ve looked into it, which has been proved a server exception. Fortunately it became properly working soon after the time when you operation occurred. We will pay attention to it and thank you for your feedback.

Best,

Linge

[sbondi65]

Thanks, Linge

I am now able to upload my Test Skill

[sbondi65]

Thanks

I purchased it, and will see how it works for me.

To hear the speaker and/or to eventually have the microphone effectively collect sound, is it necessary to make some sort of holes in the HEXA outer shell?

Also, don’t the microphone and the speaker need some kind of power with line in/out interfaces?

[sbondi65]

Hmm, so I received the speaker, and I now realize how challenging this will be.

@rizwok, I now assume you used it with the shell off the robot. Since with the robot’s stylized shell, it is difficult to store any speaker or microphone of any size under it

Until bulkier shells are available (if ever), I believe I will abandon the speaker/mic part of my project.

Which leaves me with the questions, is there a way in the phone/remote Javascript to use the iPhone speaker and iPhone microphone controlled by the Go logic on the robot?

[Mingzhao.Xu]

@sbondi65

For JavaScript part, what mindsdk do is almost just provide an easy way for phone/remote part to communicate with Golang part running on the HEXA, we don’t prevent you to call standard JS APIs. I would say you could check standard browser’s API to see if they provide some way to access iPhone’s speaker or microphone.