#HAL 9000 SOUND SERIES#
The computer also appeared in the 1984 sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the Clarke novel 2010: Odyssey Two as well as the 2010 comic book limited series by Marvel Comics. In the film, the HAL 9000 was voiced by actor Douglas Rain. It first appeared in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as the 2001: A Space Odyssey novel, which was published to coincide with the release of the film. “I wrote a simple Jasper module that will play random WAV files.”ĭjordje’s friends are impressed by the project: “In a world where you can talk to your phone’s digital assistants, or ask Google a question with your voice, no one is blown away by the fact that HAL responds to voice commands, but everyone loved the case and wanted one.The HAL 9000 is a fictional computer and artificial intelligence featured in the "Space Odyssey" franchise as envisioned by author Arthur C. It works as a voice assistant, but it can play any WAV files, including the classic lines from the movie. “I had a couple of options, but I chose eSpeak (/29iKtdt) since I’m most familiar with it.” “The Jasper project offers a couple of TTS (Text-To-Speech) engines,” explains Djordje. The brain is the Raspberry Pi running the Jasper project. “My only criterion for the speaker was that it should be small and fit inside the case,” he tells us.
Then I glued it onto the ring that goes on the back of the lens.”įor HAL 9000’s voice and brain, Djordje fitted a speaker and a Raspberry Pi inside the case. I removed the casing and left the circuit board exposed, to make it as compact as possible. But since they come bundled together, having a webcam was a plus. “The lens is mostly for style, to give the whole build a more polished look, but it does also expand the field of view of the webcam a little. So I had to settle for a cheaper, non-convex lens.” Luckily, he found a used one that he liked, via local classified advertisements: a Titanium Super Wide Lens 0.42x AF. Even the used ones were way too expensive. “I wanted to find a super convex lens like the one from the movie, but lenses of that calibre are anything but cheap. To allow HAL 9000 to see, Djordje added a webcam and camera lens. Some things like the number of holes on the speaker panel and the logo are spot on.”
“I was only able to guess the actual size of the original HAL, so I based it off the lens.
#HAL 9000 SOUND MOVIE#
“I examined a dozen movie stills from the film,” he continues. “The box is 300 × 96 × 62mm, which is a bit larger than a tall carton of milk. “I used a 3mm thick black acrylic, and I’ve painted some parts to look metallic,” Djordje reveals.
#HAL 9000 SOUND FULL#
The full article can be found in The MagPi 48 and was written by Lucy HattersleyĪside from the Raspberry Pi, all the other parts are off-the-shelf computer components that you can buy online. “The first time I heard synthesized speech, I thought to myself: ‘Wow, how cool would it be if that was a voice of HAL 9000?’ It was when I stumbled upon Jasper, this amazing open-source project that allows you to control a computer with your voice, that I knew I had to make HAL.” I had this Raspberry PI Model B waiting to become something great,” says Djordje Ungar, “and what greater thing can a computer hope for than to become the iconic computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? I mean, come on!
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