Make: Volume 93

OKAY ROBOT VoxHead Humanoid

via USB cables to a bigger computer in the torso;

the eyecam control loop won’t be as fast, but USB

video is more convenient to work with, and then

any computer can be used for processing.

Under the flip-up shelf is a servomotor control

board and audio amplifier. Two different motor

controllers can be mounted by default: an

SSC3

2 or a

PCA9685

. The SSC32 has 32 motor

control channels with

SIPO shift registers

and

some extra IO pins; it communicates with the

computer via

serial (USB)

. The PCA9685 has 16

channels and is driven from the IO pins of the

SoC computer using

IC

. By flipping the computer

shelf up and out of ...