The Plan:
At my office, we have wisely instituted a new green office program. No, to my knowledge, this does not mean that were are now ordering up renewable energy for the office (which everyone can do by the way).

What it does mean is .. recycling. What it means to me. I have no more garbage can under my desk. After I eat something, I have to walk across the room and put the garbage in a new handy more central garbage container. ( I do have a recycling bin, but then, I don't use a lot of paper.. )

"What!?", you say, "how could they subject you to this uncharismatic outrage!".

Fear not. For I will build Trashy, a robot that will throw away my garbage for me. And Trashy will have charisma and general office functions, perhaps attending meetings for me. Trashy will also have aspirations to be a Broadway star and will sometimes go into a storage room to practice singing.

Eventually.

For now, I would just like to start with a model head, probably a wig holder, but attach this head to a webcam with motion detection software. If it all works, then the head will simply people as they walk by.

Not rocket science, but some good skill building. I have a Roboduino (designed by our very own Eric Forkosh), a couple of continious servos, a Macbook and a half a pack of Cigarettes.

Also, found some nice code in Actionscript 3.0 we can use for the motion detection:
http://blog.soulwire....

For those using a mac isight camera, you will need to find the Camera index of your camera:
http://www.squidder.c...

Once you have that index, you can either hard code it into the Main.as file that comes with the .swf from the first link.. or can somehow write that code from squidder into the Main.as file.

We will go over it later.

Finally, we will need to send signals from flash to Arduino. That I might have to figure out on the spot..
http://www.arduino.cc...