Raspberry Pi Robot Case (Cogsworth)

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I made a Raspberry Pi home assistant (kind of like Amazon's Alexa) using all open source, self contained software (So I wouldn't need an internet connection). I named it Cogsworth and I programmed him so that he had several hundred possible responses to various things such as being addressed and being asked to check the weather etc... Almost all of those responses were rude and snarky. In making Cogsworth's body, I had a few goals to keep in mind: keep it compact. (small printer, with very limited filament) make it possible to fasten him to a flat surface. make it look like he isn't terribly thrilled to be helping you For goal 1, I had to start over several times, as I kept making him too big. I kept tying to make the Pi housing his chest, and that led to much bigger robots. Moving the Pi housing to his face helped a lot, and allowed me to make sure that all of his ports were accessible. For goal 2, I made his feet long and forked so that a screw can be threaded between his 'toes' to fasten him to a desk/wall/ceiling For goal 3, I gave him a flat-topped eye based roughly on 80's robots like ultraman or tranformers (I had just read Ready Player One at the time of designing). I also placed his face directly in front of his body and rounded his shoulders to give the impression that he is slouching. My prints were fairly rushed, so the quality in the photos aren't fantastic. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!