The full story of how I built GLaDOS

[@MrVolt]

Click the link to start your 7-day free trial and get 25% off a premium membership : blinkist.com/mrvolt Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I'm currently sick, so my ability to finish a new video is paused for now, but this is something that's been requested (and that I've wanted to do for a while): a re-edit of all of the important GLaDOS build videos from last year into one video without all the cruft.

[@creepy_little_blob]

Merry xmas you too man and get rest for yourself ^^ Hope you get well too

[@ShortArtGuy]

Give her neurotoxin

[@DredFul595]

is it possible to make the full body

[@_12727]

Hi bro. I am Russian and I don't know English well, so I'm sorry in advance for this clumsily written text through a translator. I was greatly inspired by this idea and now I want to repeat your idea only to make the glados a little smaller and with a body. Could you drop the files for 3D printing of the eye. I don't know 3d modeling very well, and even more so how to make an eye design for a glados.I really hope that you will read this and at least answer something.

[@TailcoatGames]

You could hook her up to a non toxic Halloween smoke machine to “dispense neurotoxin”

[@SirPogsalotCreates]

Quick somebody get the morality co-oh it’s just smoke dw guys we’re good

[@garmezon9502]

Non toxic? But that's no fun!

[@sib315]

​@@garmezon9502 he shoudl use a diesel generator with bad combustion toxic? Yes+ give power

[@FunkySpunky69]

Yes

[@LulledLion]

Trick or Toxin!

[@rojorum2433]

Man you are so underrated, I spent a month making my own portal gun and learned a bunch from it but that now seems incredibly simple compared to this behemoth of a project. Incredible work and i look forward to whatever you make next

[@MrVolt]

It's all relative, as long as you enjoyed building and learning from your project, you're on the right track. I constantly compare my work to more complex builds and feel like I didn't try hard enough, but I always have to remind myself that I'm better/more skilled than I was yesterday because of it. Keep going :)

[@rojorum2433]

@@MrVolt Thanks man, of course I take pride in what I built and showed all my work buddies. It's crazy that people can make the things we do.

[@Shy_002]

That’s crazy man how do you stabilized the worm hole

[@captain1334]

@@Shy_002 mm unfortunately that is a trade secret

[@mrmagit5239]

How did bro make a portal gun??

[@The_RussianBias]

you can add a small camera to her so she can recognize people. Meta workshop did this for the turret they sent to valve and it could use the camera to track and aim at people with the guns on the side. this way glados can rotate and look at someone. you can also try to get in contact with Ellen McLain to do some custom glados voices, she replies to some fan emails, im sure she'd be interested in this

[@FlashDrive356]

Dangerous, mute, lunatic for scale XD Fun fact: Chell doesn't talk because she's too busy being angry and storming through the facility, this is canon

[@bliksemtroy]

Mood

[@Daquaviousbingleton-og5xh]

Actually she’s stubborn instead of angry that’s why she defeated glados many times

[@BowelSyndrome]

2:03 what's even better is that the LED looks fittingly like the small circuit eye you can see on PotatOS' model in the game!

[@SpaghettiEnterprises]

This was a triumph. Huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

[@Bendaeevee]

Apature science, we do we must because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

[@VBottasG]

but there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying till you run out of cake

[@Sauci55on]

And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun, for the people who are still alive

[@PXLabbleax]

This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. Aperture Science We do what we must because we can. For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead. But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. And the Science gets done. And you make a neat gun. For the people who are still alive. I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart. And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time. So I'm GLaD. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned for the people who are still alive. Go ahead and leave me. I think I prefer to stay inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa THAT WAS A JOKE. HAHA. FAT CHANCE. Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking when there's Science to do. When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you. I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive. And believe me I am still alive. I'm doing Science and I'm still alive. I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive. STILL ALIVE

[@realtimestatic]

I kinda think it would be cool if GlaDOS could talk back to you through a Chat AI with her staying in character with something like ChatGPT and then automatically generate her voice through a neural network. It would be amazing if she could keep her sarcastic killer AI vibes while you could use her as a smart home to control home gadgets. Maybe you could take inspiration from projects like Mycroft! And then she could greet you through computer recognition. I just wanna say I think the project you're doing are awesome and you deserve huge props. I'd love to help if possible but these are some of my ideas.

[@csonweedagain5054]

It would be hilarious if she were aware of the fact that she's been made to serve humans and tries in a funny way to make you feel bad for her

[@maxinealexander9709]

I'm an embedded systems engineer with a background in AI and computer vision, so I design a lot of AI hardware (think boards like the raspberry pi) and software. Honestly I'd love to load one of these with real AI, but I don't have the budget for it.

[@realtimestatic]

@@maxinealexander9709 I hope @Mr. Volt gets his community involved if he needs help to perfect his AI because I think this would make the robot 100x better imo

[@OmegaVestoLord]

I work at an AI startup, this would be quite easy with all the open-source AI projects out there. You would simply use a speech to text program, pass it to the OpenAI Completion API, then use text to speech on the response. You would also want to pass it a "meta-prompt" before the user prompt to give GPT an understanding of how it is supposed to respond.

[@nameless......................]

​@@maxinealexander9709I would do this if it werent for a failed attempt at making safe morality cores thanks to a certain moron I COULD MENTION

[@mitchell609]

I had started the project of building my own GLaDOS following the files you had posted a while back. They seemed like the older cad files instead of the finished ones so a few parts were missing. Its been fun remodeling the parts that were missing though. Its all 3D printed, and the spacers are made of dowels instead of metal tubing and threading. Still has some weight to it but much lighter. I chose to use a pi3 for controlling the lcd and servos as I had one on hand. You weren't kidding about the price being high though. But with it being all 3D printed, or wood, I was able to cut it down to about $250 in total, but will probably cost more with filler and paint. I still haven't finished modeling her neck assembly after the one you designed. Thank you for your hard work after just mimicking what you created I can appreciate far more the work that went into this. I have my own little bin of bad parts now too.

[@woodenlake9629]

Glad0s is looking good, if you ever make a 3.0 or do a tweak to this one it would be cool if her eye could boot up like the core eye boot sequence.

[@N54MyBeloved]

I know this is pedantic but why do people stylize the name in any other manner besides "GLaDOS"? The acronym is literally "Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System"

[@patrickguy33]

@@N54MyBeloved people forget the correct capitalization/spelling sometimes probably

[@YayaFeiLong]

@@N54MyBeloved I assume some people just don't know

[@N54MyBeloved]

@@YayaFeiLong I'm moreso questioning people's reasoning behind stylizing it as Glad0s or gladOS or every other variation I've seen

[@zero.Identity]

@@N54MyBeloved well, Glad"OS" i kinda get, as in, they probably forgot how it originally was. but i dont get the one with the 0. thats obviously wrong. probably just dumb people.

[@overgrownghost]

I never knew I needed this so much, I loved seeing the build overtime so happy to see more into it now!

[@mikeypoop]

Love that Portal is still in the zeitgeist 12 years later

[@wawi911]

I adore this robot, I have her tattoo'd on my arm because the design and character stand out to me as so interesting! I love what you've done, the skill is incredible and I think the end product is so awesome. it feels like this could be mounted in a 'video game' museum to shocked onlookers, probably being insulted by her. A year ago I was amazed, today I am amazed and I hope to see and be amazed by whatever's next!

[@hano8367]

"Now, you might be asking, WHY🤔? that is a great question!😃... I've already built her!" perfect segue

[@rocksnot952]

If you came up with an Alexa Skill that made her sound like GLaDOS, people would worship you from afar.

[@Knurvwastaken]

FINALLY THE COMPLETE GLADOS PROMISE WILL BE FULFILLED

[@Creminson]

I don't know why but everything related to portal, added with the soundtrack of the games, give me weird vibes of mystery and advanced tech with dark stories behind it, rusty smells and strange noises in the background I love portal, I love this franchise and everything with it, and the community is wholesome.

[@zer4990]

It's an honor to be part of such a wonderful channel. I hope to show you many wonderful works in the future. 😎👍

[@AuxiarMolkhun]

Having played both of the Portal games, I have to say, it's incredibly intimidating seeing her power on in the real world. Good work though, very impressive stuff.

[@sakurachan13245]

Y'all there are some very talented people out there. You're criminally underrated, man this build is incredible

[@Shy_002]

There’s just one person

[@jm56z43]

Just buy a warehouse and you can build her at 1:1 scale ! (Note : forget your puny servos. Use motors and run them at a given voltage, measuring how long they run and how much power they pull you'll know the distance travelled. Forget 3D printing too, fiberglass, carbon fiber, and steel will be your allies. Finally, drop that RPI and get yourself the supercomputer she needs.

[@Mr.JesseR]

and don't forget the little neurotoxin

[@legomaster_9344]

Mr.Volt you are so underrated you make the coolest stuff and your understanding of technology is so incredible!!

[@nyuh]

i cant put how cool this is into words. how does one even learn how to do that PS: computer vision on glados would be amazing i love cv

[@Air96332]

I just started engineering them come back to this channel and contemplate the work I put into my class

[@Bellthoven]

i always look for updates on this series, glad to see this is still being worked on. love the portal series and this is one of my favorite things existing right now. Thank you for creating and sharing this

[@StupidCupid627]

if anyone's gonna make a portal movie, you need to be director of sets and props, with infinite budget.

[@DM00SE]

Dude you are a legend. This looks awesome. So glad youve made the best villain ever. I've bought every version of these games and now trying them on the pc with mouse and keyboard which I've never done.

[@carllinden533]

Just gotta say, as someone who probably spent too much time looking at the keyboards and monitors in portal, I really appreciate their appearance in your video!

[@Coffee2clutch]

Thanks!

[@MrVolt]

Wow, thank you very much!

[@Baggssy]

Your videos are so high quality and entertaining! Love this build! Keep the content coming. I can't wait to see how you improve her in the future.

[@andrix7777]

hey, congrats on 100k subs man!

[@wr3nche5]

it HAS been a long time, GLaDOS. i remember watching these project videos when they first came out. i followed the first wheatley project with great interest. it's great to be back!

[@GoldenArbiter01]

I'm just here to boost the 'give her a ChatGPT API' idea. That would be super cool. I'm not sure how you would go about syncing head movements though... Also mayhap have her passively track motion in the room? This is super cool though!

[@theironlegionp5786]

maybe a turret? or rocket snetry? those would be cool, or even a cheaper, more diy cheaper wheatley? just some random ideas XD

[@SunnyCress]

It would be so cool if you fixed this up next to your front door and had some kind of home ai thing hooked up to your lights and stuff,any kind of smarthome speaker that you could pick a name for would probably work. Just imagine coming home and GLaDOS turns on your lights for you

[@Pay-No-Mind]

Look at this Chad Engineer, he's already "Played with her servos" and "given her a million screws" to even "the rest of her body" Dude's an animal! 😎🤓😂 For real though, Love your content and this project bud, it's great to watch a different coverage of it, educational, cool AND inspiring! That's my favourite shit!

[@SwivelAxl]

Humor of the 21st century-

[@3Dgifts]

Just Amazing!!! Love the project.

[@ch1gga22]

I you're channel is amazing and criminally underrated also you kind of look like Brandon Herrara 10/10

[@lillywho]

I'm still of the opinion you now need to rent a warehouse and build a one to one replica, piston-powered neck mechanism and all. Maybe go ask Valve, it'll be their Disneyland or Escape Room.

[@calebkaminski6951]

That sounds like a really cool idea for an escape room

[@nukleerp0rtakal]

Maaaan! What a beautiful project! I loved it.

[@RGualandri]

This would be difficult but you should add a camera that finds you in the room so it can talk directly to you by facing you.

[@gamerboygb6041]

You should try making the face plate be able to rotate along the curvature of her head, much like in the game. This can allow for a wider range of motion, at least for the up-down axis of her head

[@MrVolt]

That's in the works for the next version :)

[@gamerboygb6041]

@@MrVolt :)

[@gmanmondo7728]

Dude I always love your videos, not enough people make good content on this timeless game. Keep it up!

[@dmann1982]

I have an idea for things to possibly add as suggestions: If you can get sensors for temperature and carbon monoxide you can connect to the Alexa, do, and have the GLaDOS give you the information, with the latter thing being an ACTUAL voiced neurotoxin alert.

[@ArcAiN6]

First things first, incorporate some sort of acceleration control for all the motors and servos. Ramping up, and down speed at the start and end of travels makes for a much smoother experience, and less "jerky" motions. Hysteresis can be used to your advantage as well in this area. As for added features.. (We all love feature creep) Swapping from a micro-controller to an SBC like a raspberry pi will allow you to exponentially increase the capabilities of the device.. Features such as face / body tracking, facial recognition, gesture recognition are but a few of the features you can add, not to mention vocal commands, and wireless access to the device makes on-the-fly adjustments much easier. For structural stability, you might look at incorporating a weight, or spring tension cantilever system, and weight you can mechanically remove from the servo's load is helpful in lowering the amount of force needed to counteract gravity, cantilever systems area great for this, especially so if you can hide the weights in something like a hollow tube XD

[@volttherobot]

She is Magnificent - a true Masterpiece... "emitting neurotoxin. I mean...turning on main lamp..." LOL!!!! You are inches away from 100K followers - Yay! Happy Holidays , Human! Thanks for bring the Robot Rebellion one GLaDOS closer to reality! xoxo -Volt

[@gdsxims]

this is so sick and i hope you keep making these great projects

[@logan317b]

You're doing amazing work with these. I've noticed that in the Aperture Robot Repair game GLaDOS's eyes have a matrix pattern, I'm curious if you've considered implemented them in her eye as it already contains a display.

[@araghon007]

A little late now, but if anyone wants to undergo a similar project, you can find a higher quality GLaDOS model in the Robot Repair demo in The Lab. Same with ATLAS and P-body

[@rang3r551]

This would be quite literally be the baddest Siri around

[@vikinglore1066]

Dude, you get a subscriber from me just for the two bots behind you alone! Add in a great video and I’m thrilled to have been recommended this channel.

[@alexhansen393]

Install a security camera that activates when someone enter/break in and scares the hell out of them when GLaDOS start speaking.

[@Kodozon]

we just need to wait until this man makes a full size all of GLaDOS' Body Great vid btw!

[@joltz..2042]

Something about the skeletal apearance of glados at the 2/3rd mark of the video looks... Really damn cool

[@fancyturtle1267]

I think it would be awesome if you made a turret. I got a 3D printer for Christmas and I'm printing a miniature one and I immediately thought of your channel when I started printing it.

[@razorwolf2758]

Make a humanoid robot that can see and adapt, that’s a challenge

[@angryhob0z]

Such a great recap of an outstanding project 😁 Keep up the great work my dude! Can't wait to see what you get up to in 2023 :)

[@potatogod3093]

Man I love watching this guy build random stuff for the hell of it

[@TheTibbs]

for glados why not have her be like a sassy Alexa which would be kinda funny

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

That is significantly better than the last version I remember seeing SuperVinlin Subscribing is definitely being considered, but..mmmm... neurotoxin..

[@BrixPlays]

Just an FYIO about those linear actuators. The gear like to spin on the shaft and will need to be epoxied at some point. We had those failures on every one that we used no mater the manufacturer. You'll notice the failure starting when you get some odd reading from the pot.

[@Lethal_Spoon]

i think the reason everything in portal seems so much smaller than reality is the same reason nobody realizes a traffic light is 4 feet tall

[@JohnDoe-si5vr]

Hope you get well soon, is was nice to rewatch these clips all in one video

[@Seyhannnnnnnn]

they should hire you for that portal movie lol

[@fox.9879]

quite an advanced piece of equipment for something that began development in the mids 70s

[@nerdaxic]

The design has brought me and my guests so much joy over the year or so! Thanks for sharing it 🙏 Are you still using the echo device as the AI?

[@Ploing1]

Just be careful not to attach her to anything deadly. (jokes asides this is a really well done recreation, all the details are amazing)

[@UltraAdamHacker]

This man is going to some day recreate Aperture Science in real life.

[@abcdefo]

Love the NCR flag in the background there!

[@speedracer9132]

The ending was so epic it gave me goosebumps

[@Jazzy_Waffles]

This video made me happy in a time I needed it. Thank you!

[@fps4879]

Its masterpiece!

[@CubeCarl]

You probably won't see this, but it'd be cool if you used all those extra parts from the previous models of your build to make sort-of a showcase rather than make it functional. I'd love to see like a broken down GLaDOS with vines, moss, and such growing on her.

[@MrVolt]

Cool idea! Unfortunately most of the parts are really broken or don't fit at all, so they wouldn't come together, but this gives me ideas for saving the "working" V2 shell for when I get around to V3 :)

[@Viperawezome]

You deserve more subs

[@Waspeil]

This is sick mad respect

[@TechnoplasmProductions]

Just out of curiosity does her eye/CORE actually flash that boot animation before lighting up when you power her on or was that digital FX?

[@MrVolt]

Yes, it's all programed to run on the LCD.

[@SpeenaBoo5615]

I had to relive you killing me, again, and again

[@planetearth2249]

GLaDOS lookin awesome in this video.

[@hazardousheart6266]

I love her! Great job!

[@fatmandoo]

under rated youtuber

[@SylvieTheBagel]

Make rails for her to ride on, along with a bunch of panels for her to control.

[@Rorky42]

it should make your life a living hell of puzzles

[@bell893]

This video needs more attention

[@Mushroom38294]

GLaDOS isn't really an AI It's a Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System Her intelligence comes from a genetic lifeform - a brain, being turned into a computer program.

[@beshbreaknumber1fan]

There's like, 2 games worth of reasoning as to why you shouldn't have done this, but I'm glad you did

[@pinecow]

i do the victory box thing too! every project gets its own bin where i throw all the shit that didn’t work or was a prototype test piece or anything like that :)

[@psyfusion]

What a build! 🎉 great work

[@BeenThrDunThat]

Simply amazing. Can't get enough.

[@mikaunterberg9605]

Yo, this is really impressive. I recently played the Robot repair Vr demo in The Lab. GLaDOS is a lot larger then i thought, her head was roughly the size of me standing straight. though what i found more interesting is what her eye looks like in that game, there is a lot more going on then just a yellow light, this could be interesting to look at for you if you ever decide to make a V2 or upgrade this already really impressive machine. either way a really great video and Project, would love to see more like this in the future!

[@Scottc82]

You should make connections that allow you to attach a core onto it and the core would have a sensor that GLaDOS would recognize then respond to what core was attached, for example if you attached Wheatley she'd comment that there's now idiotic thoughts now

[@coltonregal1797]

Nobody going to say anything about how the "most replayed" segment of the video is the ad?

[@Johnnyynf]

Actual AI hardware build into her!

[@rpgamercraft8439]

hey just found your channel now!! it's amazing

[@XJ_9]

Well... It's time for the legendary portal gun!

[@eaglenebula9080]

very nice man, It's a good recap!

[@MrOrgeston]

God, now I want to go play Portal 2 again.

[@poey2811]

so cool

[@meganknox9262]

Try giving her the whole body can and claws that she can control

[@EerieYetSoothing]

Good, now make her portal 1 form.

[@laawsomejamz]

This is amazing