So I turned Alexa into GLaDOS

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Building GLaDOS in Real Life Part 5, Chapter 2: Cold Boot

0:00 Spooky Intro
0:25 Who is GLaDOS?
1:14 Building GLaDOS
2:27 Design Updates
3:00 Hacking Alexa
3:30 A Surprise Giveaway
4:32 GLaDOS wakes up

Hey, it's that evil robot lady from the Portal games. If you're an astronaut, war hero, or olympian--share this video with another Portal lovin' friend.

I'll have a more in depth technical video next week, so stick around for that.

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(Warning: she's not a 3D print-only design; CNC machining and laser cutting is required, which is why there's not a tutorial)

[MrVolt]

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Thanks so much for the positive feedback everyone! If you want more Aperture Science come to life, share this video with a friend, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, etc. Also, since it comes up so much already, yes, her voice is created via 15.ai (which is offline right now). Check on Saturday mornin (PST) for the Q&A and a sneak peek.

[bloodymagpie]

"We're not here to psychoanalyze me, we're here to build a cool robot." I feel this could have been a great voiceline for Cave Johnson.

[jeefberky]

Imagine breaking into someone's house and hearing the movement of machines, followed by "releasing deadly neurotoxin"

[-Juney-]

Imagine: You are a famous robber; you have stolen millions and have hidden out from the government for years and you are one of the most infamous criminals ever.

One day you see Mr. Volt’s house, not knowing who it is, and think “What the heck. It’s simple, but it’ll be worth at least something.” And prepare to break into the house.

You break in, and immediately the houses lights turn red, and all the windows and doors are sealed.

You hear mechanical whirring and hear a mildly robotic voice saying “Releasing deadly neurotoxin.”

And that’s how your entire successful career ends. You get poisoned by a robot based of a video game from the 2000’s.

[neuroairman]

There's something to be said about turning a killer robot into a glorified light switch. It's morbidly poetic.

[eggytheapple]

“She loves science, murder, and science in that order”
The most accurate summary of GLaDOs I’ve ever heard.

[TheOscarGamer_]

GLaDOS in real life, Wheatley in real life... What's next? The Wrench mask? XD
Seriously, your projects are mind-blowing. I've never thought about the possibility to do certain things like turning Alexa's voice into GLaDOS'!

[exiem]

"Alexa, what's the forecast?"
"Deploying deadly neurotoxin"
"Wait *what* "

[NakedWyverns]

“Glados, what’s the news for today”
“Crazy psychotic man builds an innocent robot and then proceeds to mount innocent robot on wall”

[Subjecttochannel]

great touch having "You said apple" as the speech detection test that was a really clever blink-and-you-miss-it reference

[thedangernoodle]

I can totally hear cave johnson saying "you see those beutifull circle thingies on 'er head? thats AR-500 steel baby, the lab bois said this was a huge waste of money for such a small circle of protection. BUT WHAT DO THEY KNOW. I PAY THE BILLS AROUND HERE I CAN DECORATE WITH WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT!"

[theparrishshow]

Can we appreciate how in character GLaDOS is in this video? The Neurotoxin, the advanced vocabulary, it’s all so perfect

[amigacdebasic]

Im genuinely terrified that if one man can make glados' head, what can a team of like 10 people do.

[kag]

he actually looks like a mad scientist so when GLaDOS wakes up it makes it 100 times cooler than it already is.

[mariostret]

He even got dress for the occassion (as a test subject), frikin legend

[ashb]

15ai and uberduck make this even better because you can essentially have glados say anything and the natural text-to-speech qualities of her voice make voice synthesis sound immediately believable.

[dorkhydrogen]

ok next you need to purchase a salt mines in upper Michigan and transport a unwilling assistant into the consciousness of the machine

[TimeWisely]

i like the detail you put into her eye, and that little boot animation, not many people ever go to that amount of detail, most of the time it's just a static wall mounted head, none of the stuff you did to yours is ever done by anyone else, heck they can't even talk lol even if they did, they use the voice lines from the game

[marek]

i can not comprehend how are some of the people out there talented. Well done lad, it looks absolutely incredible.

[markliu]

"Alexa, release the seratonin."
"releasing neurotoxin"
"WAIT NO-