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Cheppie the Dragon application screen
Inspiration
Wanted to make a virtual pet
What it does
It breathes fire, holds conversations and gets hungry
How we built it
-Used Eleven Labs for its voice -Pygame for the animation -GPT 4 for the chat function -Arduino microcontroller and push button to activate fire breathing -Vosk for recognising voice input
Challenges we ran into
-At first getting the laptop to recognise the microcontroller and transmit data -The UI freezing when the dragon talks -Ran out of GPT tokens while testing
Accomplishments that we're proud of
-Making the animation reflect the dragon's mood -Making the button work -Finding a voice the fits Cheppie's (dragon) character -Enabling voice recognition
What we learned
-How to connect a python application to a GPT model -How to send data from a microcontroller to a computer and basic hardware -How to use GitHub in a collaborative environment
What's next for Team 29 Cheppie the Dragon
Integrating cheppie into mini games to increase user interaction Creating more actions that cheppie can perform
