Hello! 

Today's log will be an update for the month of October. I plan to update monthly and am excited to share my robotics journey with you. This month I mainly focused on solidifying the plan for my project. I researched articles that detailed successful emotional recognition experiments with children with ASD. These articles were incredibly helpful and they prompted me to add two more design features to my robotic head: 1) sound and 2) have an interactive and conversational aspect to the robot. Another accomplishment this month was finding a robotic head demo that I could follow for the building of mine. Rather than focusing on building the robotic head I really want to focus on coding the robot and making the emotions as precise as possible and having enough time to code more emotions and improvements. This past week, I finally began building my project. I started off by laser cutting all the necessary parts and next week I plan to 3D print the necessary components. 

-Ramya