drwjkirkpatrick-web/dance-robot

AI-powered 18DOF hexapod dance robot that learns African dances from YouTube and curates a dance database. Raspberry Pi 5 + Hermes Agent. # 🕺 Dance Robot **AI-powered 18DOF hexapod dance robot** — learns African dances from YouTube, iteratively refines them, and curates a dance database. Runs on **Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB)** with **Sense HAT (B)**, powered by onboard **Hermes Agent** with cloud LLM. --- ## Architecture ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ DANCE ROBOT BRAIN │ │ │ │ YouTube/Web ──→ DanceLearner ──→ PoseExtractor ──→ MoveMapper │ │ │ │ │ Sense HAT ──→ AlwaysOnBeat ──→ BeatDetector ──→ DanceEngine ──→ ServoDriver (18DOF) │ (IMU+mic) Detector (FFT+BPM) (routine exec) │ │ │ │ │ Microphone ──→ VoiceLearner ──→ IntentParser ──→ PhraseCache │ │ │ │ │ Hermes Agent ──→ Cortex (Cloud LLM) ──→ DecisionEngine │ │ (onboard) │ │ │ └──→ IterationEngine ──→ DanceDB (SQLite) │ │ (expected vs actual) (versioned, curated) │ │ │ │ All modules ──→ EventBus ──→ SafetyGovernor ──→ Web Dashboard │ │ (async pub/sub) (8 checks) (FastAPI+WS) │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ``` ## Features ### 🎵 Dance Learning - **YouTube → Pose → Move pipeline**: Search, download, extract poses, map to 18DOF servo angles - **8 African dance primitives**: Azonto, Gwara Gwara, Shaku Shaku, Alkayida, Zanku, Amapiano, Soukous, and more - **36 pre-built moves** across 6 categories (Body, Legs, Arms, Poses, Combos, African) ### 🔄 Iterative Refinement - **Expected vs Actual comparis …