Chippy Ruxpin!

<h1>Chippy Ruxpin!</h1>

<p>A project for driving mouth and eye motors for an old Teddy Ruxpin with text-to-speech capabilities through a web interface.
Entering text through the web interface will make Teddy Ruxpin say whatever you want with syncronized mouth movements.
All done with CHIP, the world's first $9 computer.</p>

<p>Make sure you install the following dependencies:</p>

<p><code>sh
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential espeak alsa-utils
sudo apt-get install python-alsaaudio python-numpy python-twitter python-bottle mplayer
</code>
To start the application, run this script:</p>

<p><code>sh
sudo python chippyRuxpin.py
</code></p>

<p>Assuming your CHIP is connected to WIFI or ethernet, you should see a message that looks similar to this:</p>

<h2>```sh</h2>

<p>CHIPPY RUXPIN IS ONLINE!</p>

<h2>In your browser, go to http://10.1.2.52:8080</h2>

<p>```</p>

<p>Simply go to that URL in your browser and you should see a webpage with a text input box. Here, you can make Chippy Ruxpin say whatever you want.
You can also have him read tweets from Twitter if you like.</p>

<p>NOTE: To properly associate your Twitter account with this code, please take edit the following file:</p>

<p><code>sh
chippyRuxpin.py
</code></p>

<p>At the top, you should see these variables:</p>

<p><code>sh
consumerKey='INSERT YOUR CONSUMER KEY HERE FROM TWITTER'
consumerSecret='INSERT YOUR CONSUMER SECRET HERE FROM TWITTER'
accessTokenKey='INSERT YOUR ACCESS TOKEN KEY HERE FROM TWITTER'
accessTokenSecret='INSERT YOUR ACCESS TOKEN SECRET HERE FROM TWITTER'
</code></p>

<p>You need to change these values with the proper keys associated with your own Twitter account. To generate these keys, go to the following URL:</p>

<p>https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens</p>