KIDA-01

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• Robot Type: Tank

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Windows controller: builds/KIDA-01-Controller.exe shows KIDA-01's own web page in a window, so it always matches the page. Source: scripts/web_controller.

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Camera: her Android app shows her camera (/video_feed/0).

Other languages: scripts/controllers has this robot's controller in C#, F#, Rust, Go and Julia, all reading one robot.json: W A S D to drive, the mode buttons and the sensors. See its README for how to run each.

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Related Projects

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Overview

Website: https://cursedprograms.github.io/KIDA-Robot-v01/

KIDA represents the pinnacle of the RIFT fleet. Built on the Raspberry Pi 5, it leverages the Hailo-8L AI accelerator to perform high-speed neural processing at the edge. With a dual-camera setup for multi-spectrum vision and local LLM integration, KIDA is designed for sophisticated human-robot interaction and autonomous decision-making without relying on the cloud.

Core Features

• Neural Edge Processing: 13 TOPS of AI compute via Hailo-8L for real-time object detection and tracking.
• Hybrid Dual-Vision: Simultaneous processing of Night Vision and 4K AI camera feeds for 24/7 situational awareness.
• Local LLM Integration: Privacy-focused voice interaction and logic processing running entirely on-device.
• Autonomous Navigation: Advanced SLAM and obstacle avoidance powered by high-speed Raspberry Pi 5 architecture.
• Music Visualizer: while music plays, bars from the song itself rise along the bottom of her face on the HUD (music_viz.py + audio_analysis.py, KIDA-00's; they animate while a song is being read, or without pydub / ffmpeg).
• Music Together: RIFT conducts and she plays along in time with the fleet: POST /music {"action": "play", "track": 7, "at": <RIFT's time>} on :5004, synced to RIFT's clock (fleet_music.py, the same contract as KIDA-00 and TINA). Tracks are numbered by the number in the file name, as on NORA's SD card.
• Tip Stop: tilted more than 30° from her startup pose for a quarter second, in any mode, her motors stop, anything driving her by itself hands back to keyboard, and she says so; drive commands are refused until she's been level for a second (scripts/tip_guard.py, tipped in /status).
• Two Screens: the full HUD (ui.py) on HDMI 0, the desktop screen, and a big-text status board (small_screen.py: her face, mode, wheel lock, battery, what she's doing) on a small touch screen in HDMI 1. They go by the physical port, so either works on its own; with only the small screen plugged in the HUD keeps running hidden. config.json SmallScreen (Enabled, Port).

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Every key, gamepad button and IR remote button. The PC controller shows the same list with F1. One list feeds both: controller/scripts/keymap.py (regenerate with python controller/scripts/keymap.py).

Modes (any time)

Key	Does
1	KEYBOARD: you drive
2	IR REMOTE: the IR remote drives
3	AUTONOMOUS: obstacle avoidance
4	IDLE: asleep, motors off
5	LINE FOLLOWER
6	WATCHDOG: person alarm
7	LANE DETECT (Hailo)
8	PERSON FOLLOW (cam 1)
9	MIND: an LLM drives her (this PC's, or her own: Options, Mind)

Drive (KEYBOARD mode)

Key	Does
W A S D	WASD scheme: forward, left, back, right; W+A etc. curve
Q A / W S	QAWS scheme: left track / right track, forward and back
< or ,	WASD scheme
> or .	QAWS (tank) scheme
X	next speed
SPACE	hard stop: motors and music

Camera, lights, music

Key	Does
C	photo
V	video
I	cam 0 inference (YOLO) on / off
L	lights on / off
K	light effects on / off
M	play music (skip when playing)

Robot

Key	Does
U	lock the motors / unlock (asks for the password)
T	type a message to her (PC controller)
O	her options: config.json (PC controller)
H	go home (PC controller)
F1	this keys window (PC controller)
ESC	close the window (on her: the UI restarts)
Q	quit (WASD scheme; on her: stops for good)

PC controller only

Key	Does
Backspace	STOP: motors off in any mode, back to KEYBOARD (as the STOP button)
Drive keys, pad	in any mode: driving takes over (back to KEYBOARD, you drive)
STOP / EMULATE	buttons: stop in any mode / her pretend self on this PC (fake_kida01.py)

Gamepad (on her or the PC)

Key	Does
Left stick	drive (WASD scheme)
LT / RT	left / right track, analog (QAWS scheme)
LB / RB	QAWS: that track backwards; WASD: previous / next mode
Right stick	aim the ultrasonic / laser servo
A	photo
B	stop
X / Y	speed down / up
D-pad ← / →	previous / next mode (set once you stop pressing)
D-pad ↑	video on / off (RT too, in the WASD scheme)
Start	lock the motors / unlock prompt
Back	LIDAR sweep

ARM's joystick (raw sticks)

Key	Does
Stick	drive
Hat ← / →	previous / next mode
Hat ↑	video on / off
Trigger	photo (as A)
Button 1	stop (as B)
Button 2 / 3	speed down / up (as X / Y)

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