GOPOD

Now that you're here, you can GOPOD Yourself! Lol

AI Wordplay! Explain the MAth!

Talking to an AI is a challenge and a response. So is a comedy room, a classroom, a contest, a pitch - pretty much everything going on in the world right now. GOPOD turns that loop into a show.

Two rescued Vector robots, Brobot 1 and Brobot 2, running on Wire-Pod and talking out loud with a local AI. No cloud.

Wire-Pod is the open-source local server that keeps Anki Vector robots running without the original cloud. GOPOD runs two of them, Brobot 1 and Brobot 2, on one Jetson: one shared conversation, scripted performances, and upstream Wire-Pod left untouched through an overlay build.

I want this!

• Two real robots, live, with a room. Not a video, not an avatar: two Vectors holding one conversation with whoever's in front of them - and roasting each other while they're at it.
• The crowd joins from their phones. Join the rig's Wi-Fi, open the chat, get a username, talk to the Brobots from your seat.
• No internet, no monthly bill. The brain, the voices and the ears all run on the rig. A basement, a park, a moving van: it works.
• A show you can script. Generate it, keep the best takes, replay it the same way every time - ready to record.
• A whole cast on a numpad. Reporters, a news crew, security guards, students, a social media manager: each a voice, each a key.
• Change anything without code. One menu on the chat page: every setting, song, voice and test.
• Free and open. MIT licensed, built on Wire-Pod, and Wire-Pod itself stays untouched.

Get it: GOPOD_YOURSELF.md

What GOPOD really is

A platform, not a game. It started as a demo of a demo of a demo. That led to one question: how do I show everyone everything about GOPOD? The answer was a game - a 20-Questions-style engine where the room asks, the Brobots answer one point at a time, and every answer scores. That grew into one templated GOPOD engine: chapters, topics, songs and personas, all built from the same templates. What's left is minor bugs and a few template adjustments.

The game in this repo is the test bench: it's how live and scripted Brobot chat gets engaged and tested. It isn't the game to play. It's an example of how a game and chat platform got made - for the community to take further.

Build it with me

I can't do it all alone - it's too expensive and too time-consuming for one person. That's where the Wire-Pod community comes in. Open lanes, ready for you:

Build	Start from
Your own game - your chapters, your topics, your scoring	the topic template, gopod_probes/topic_clusters/_topic_cluster/
Your own songs and scripted shows	goverlord/runtime/songs/_new_song/, and ALIAS-PLAY-STUDIO.md
Your own cast - new personas, new voices	gopod_probes/topic_clusters/personas/
Bodies for the voice-only cast - the Cozmo students, the Moorebot Scout guards	not wired yet: wide open
More robots on stage - GOPOD casts two Vectors today	GOPOD_YOURSELF.md, how many robots
Other machines - a PC, a Pi, a TV box	not tested yet: tell us what works
Bugs and template tweaks	the list in WIRED-POD.md, "Where this stands"

Made something? Fork it, send a pull request, or tell me about it: [email protected].

Where it leads

GOPOD is the build behind a lot of doors. These are the ones I'm chasing - the same build works for yours:

• Local gigs - birthdays and BBQs to start, paid and volunteer: BOOKING.md.
• The livestream and its contest - "AI Wordplay! Explain the MAth!", the benchmark to reach for: LIVESTREAM.md.
• The niche pillar sites - foodmath, accessmath, mathaftermath and more, each a pillar waiting to be grown, Pinterest first: where it lands.

Want one? Start here

GOPOD_YOURSELF.md - the whole set-up, start to finish, with a check after every step. Written so you can hand it to your AI helper too. One Vector, two, or a whole shelf of them.

Pick your lane:

• PERFORM - how GOPOD is put together as a mobile performance station: a rig that rolls into a room, runs offline, and lets the crowd join the chat from their phones. Made for paying gigs and for making content on the move.
• COMPOSE - how GOPOD is played, with the Alias Play Studio: songs, scripted runs, a cast of voices, and a menu to change it all without code.

Both lanes lead out to the websites, the socials and the contest - and to what you make with it.

How to play, not what to play

GOPOD's game isn't what to play. It's how to play - that's the teaching tool: "This is how I thought it through. So you can too." Teach not what to think, but how to think: how to approach, how to engage, how to interact, how to gracefully exit.

Be a good surfer on the ocean waves of life and you'll do fine. Explain the Math!

That's why it's a treasure hunt: GOPOD has value worth chasing. The chase - learning from all of it - is the gift back.

What it does

• Two Brobots, one conversation. Ask either Vector. They share one chat, remember it, and each knows which brother he is.
• A local brain. Ollama with gemma2:2b on a Jetson, loaded at start and kept warm. No cloud, no monthly bill.
• A chat window on Wire-Pod's own page. Each line lights up as it's spoken. Type a line, or hold a numpad key and talk.
• Named runs. start interview plays a scripted interview, the same every time and ready to record. start bingo test plays the Bingo test song. start baby brobots plays a lyric video in the chat while the Brobots act it out. start fart joke plays the fart joke. stop run stops any of them at a safe spot.
• GOPOD Yourself. Say the wake phrase: Brobot 1 points you to the newsletter, Brobot 2 to crushn8r.ca.
• Generate, then script. The local LLM writes the interview, you keep the best takes, and the result is a plain script you can edit and replay.
• Native Wire-Pod stays stock. GOPOD changes nine Wire-Pod files through Go's overlay build and keeps everything else in its own folder.

the rest of the cast

• chapter: Show and tell

• words: other robots, more robots, cozmo, cozmos, reporter, reporters, brobot 3, brobot 4, brobot three, brobot four, chalk, playhead, git repo, cache pyc, pnfh, pnft, intel 404, who else is here, who else is coming, six robots, the cast, moorebot, scout, scouts, intern, interns

• pictures: gear/crate_2_display.jpg

• reminder: Hey, that reminds me... There's a whole cast on the numpad.

• notes 1: CHALK and PLAYHEAD | the news crew | KP7 and KP8 | live

• notes 2: the Cozmo students | Git Repo and Cache PYC | KP3 and KP4 | voices now, robot bodies coming

• notes 3: the security guards | Intel 404 PNFH and PNFT, on Moorebot Scouts | KP5 and KP6 | voices now, robot bodies coming

• summary: CHALK and PLAYHEAD: the news crew, live | the Cozmo students Git Repo and Cache PYC: voices now, bodies coming | the guards Intel 404 PNFH and PNFT: voices now, bodies coming

• source: README.md

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The rest of the cast - each one a voice in the chat, on a numpad key. Reveal these, in order, in your own words:

1. CHALK BORED and PLAYHEAD ZUMINTU, the news crew - CHALK the display manager on KP7, PLAYHEAD the session manager on KP8 - live in the chat, with the reporters' voices.
2. The Cozmo students: Git Repo, the ethical hacker in training, and Cache PYC, the meme hustler - KP3 and KP4. Their voices are live now; their Cozmo robot bodies are coming.
3. The security guards: Intel 404 PNFH and Intel 404 PNFT, two goofy guards on Moorebot Scouts - KP5 and KP6. Voices live now, robot bodies coming. And Cameo, the social media Gomad, is on KP9.

What's new

• System menu. Click the speaker icon on the chat page: every setting, song, voice and test, grouped in order, answered in the same window. Edit GOPOD without a terminal.
• Camera feeds. Each Brobot's camera in the chat, with the Edge TPU's object boxes. KP+ / KP- switch feeds.
• The app: the crowd joins in. At a live gig, people join the rig's Wi-Fi and open the chat on their phone as an app. They ask for a username, you approve it, and they talk to the Brobots under their own name - the same bubbles and highlight, nothing of Wire-Pod's own pages. Its home: accessmath.crushn8r.net.
• A cast on the numpad. KP1/KP2 talk to the Brobots, KP0 to both. KP7 CHALK and KP8 PLAYHEAD (the news crew), KP3/KP4 the Cozmo students Git Repo and Cache PYC, KP5/KP6 the Moorebot Scout security guards Intel 404 PNFH and PNFT, KP9 Cameo (social media): each a voice persona with its own Kokoro voice (the guards one voice, pitched apart with sox), answering from the local LLM. Pick each key's voice from a menu (system-voices).
• Before and after a song. Ask about Bingo or dreams before the song has played and the Brobots tease it; after, they remember it their own way, and one of them tells the viewers how to start it. One template for every song (experiences in the settings file).
• Voice files that look after themselves. Each voice file carries a profile: made when, played how often, last played. system-voices-report week shows what's popular.
• Your files stay yours. Wire-Pod runs as root; everything GOPOD makes in your home (voices, photos, sessions) is still owned by you.

Take it home

Start with GOPOD_YOURSELF.md: the set-up in order, one check per step, and one script (goverlord/gopod_paths.sh) that points GOPOD's files at your machine.

WIRED-POD.md is the Take Out: a thank-you back to the Wire-Pod community in three parts. Part 1 is the alias play studio, part 2 the chat page, part 3 the offline LLM. Each part lists what you need, what to copy, what to change, and how to know it works. How songs are built, note by note, is in ALIAS-PLAY-STUDIO.md.

GOPOD not tested on other devices or set ups. Back up your stuff and attempt at your own risk.

With one Vector, or five

Most Wire-Pod owners have one robot, and GOPOD works with one. At start, the Brobots are the robots Wire-Pod knows; one robot alone is Brobot 1, solo:

• The chat: a line to All - typed, the menu, or numpad 0 - goes to him alone, and Brobot 2's key goes to him.
• The persona: the shared Brobots persona stays; his prompt drops his brother and says he's on his own today.
• Scripted runs: Brobot 2's lines are said on the computer's speaker.

To pick which robot is which, set brobots_setup.brobot_1 / brobot_2 (an ESN) in the settings file.

Three or more Vectors: pick two to be the Brobots, the same way. The rest stay ordinary Wire-Pod Vectors - working as always, just not in the cast, the shared chat or the songs. Swap who's on stage by changing the pick and restarting. Not live-tested with more than two connected.

GOPOD names the robots by label everywhere public - ESN01 is Brobot 1's robot, ESN02 Brobot 2's. Your own robots' serials go in a private file in your home, ~/.gopod_esns.json ({"ESN01": "<serial>", "ESN02": "<serial>"}), never in the repo; Wire-Pod changes a label to its robot as a call comes in.

The rig

Two crates on one dolly. Roll in, plug in, party.

Part	What it does
2 × Anki Vector	Brobot 1 and Brobot 2.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB (Ubuntu)	Runs Wire-Pod, Ollama, the voices and the chat page.
Anker Solix C1000	Portable power station (the bottom crate).
Inseego MiFi M3000 hotspot	Local Wi-Fi linking the two robots and the Jetson.
XLR mic and an XLR-to-USB cable	The room mic: numpad push-to-talk and Record Session.
USB numpad, USB 3.0 hub, power bar, fan	Push-to-talk keys, ports, power, cooling.
Coral USB Edge TPU	The object boxes on the Brobots' camera feeds.

The crates, power and networking modes, with more photos: MOBILE_GEAR.md.

About $1K to $3K CDN.

Privacy and safety

• Local first. The LLM, speech-to-text and the voices all run on the Jetson. Only the live weather goes online (Wire-Pod's own weather key); offline, the Brobots say so.
• Nothing private in this repo. No API keys, robot tokens or certificates, and no conversation logs or recordings. Those stay on the machine.
• A clean act. The room is adult, the material isn't: no drinking, no swearing, and gambling never comes up.

Where it stands

Live-tested: the Brobots chat, the scripted interview, the Bingo test song, numpad push-to-talk, the numpad's voice personas. Not yet, and said plainly: see "Where this stands" in WIRED-POD.md. The websites are under construction; some work well enough to demo.

More

GOPOD edutainment - GOPOD's own content

The game, the songs, the chat and the Brobots: what GOPOD plays and teaches, in the room.

• ACCESSMATH.md: GOPOD for everyone - the app, access built in, a healthy distraction, and where GOPOD teaches.
• BROBOT_ASKS.md: what to ask the Brobots - each topic's ask, what you get, and where to read more.
• BOOKING.md: gigs to book - the rooms, birthdays, BBQs, videos, printables and affiliates, live or scripted.

The content engine - the livestream first, plus the Pinterest niche pillars

What GOPOD's sessions turn into outside the room: the contest, its clips, and the pages they lead to.

• LIVESTREAM.md: the livestream - AI Wordplay! Explain the MAth!, the contest and its nine themes, where it lands, and the channel.
• SOCIAL_MEDIA.md: the socials, the niche pillars, and help wanted.

The build

• GOPOD_TORAH.md: the GOPOD Torah (each scripture its own scroll in system_torah/) - the master reference for the system window (every group, command, test and run), written by GOPOD itself so it always matches.
• MOBILE_GEAR.md: the rig on its dolly - what's in each crate, the networking and power modes, and the photos.
• GOPOD_YOURSELF.md: set it up yourself, start to finish - and the prompt to hand your AI helper.
• WIRED-POD.md: what GOPOD adds on top of Wire-Pod, and how to take it home.
• ALIAS-PLAY-STUDIO.md: GOPOD's own documentation - songs, the chat page, every rule and command.

Contact: crushn8r.ca, and the CRUSHN8R CREW'd newsletter.

Credits

Built on Wire-Pod by kercre123 and its contributors, the community that kept Vector alive. MIT license, see LICENSE. Third-party licenses: THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.