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The connection chip's robot face grows into a character. It is now one NiceGUI element (RobotBuddy, a Vue SFC) instead of three static SVGs driven by a global script, so any number can live on a page, each with its own timers and cleanup. Moods: happy (connected), neutral (simulator), sad (disconnected), plus alarmed (E-STOP: wide eyes, flashing antenna LEDs, shake) and booting (scanning visor). Moving between moods animates: a hop into happy, a slump into sad, relief when an E-STOP clears. While idle it blinks with real eyelids, glances around, hums, gets suspicious, sighs; follows the pointer when it comes near; blushes when hovered; giggles when poked and gets dizzy from a flurry of pokes; and dozes off (Zzz) after three minutes without input, waking on activity. The chip buddy now reacts to what the robot does: - focuses on the arm (lowered lids, eyes on the scene, LEDs chasing) while a program runs or the arm moves - celebrates a program that exits cleanly, winces at one that crashes - is startled by new warnings/errors and by a collision stop - turns alarmed while an E-STOP is latched - waves hello once the page has loaded New appearances: - the E-STOP dialog: a big alarmed buddy (red for the hardware button, amber for the software stop) replaces the Lottie animation, which was fetched from unpkg@latest and lottie.host and so broke offline - the loading overlay: a booting buddy replaces the spinner, and turns sad when no controller answers - the takeover overlay: the moping buddy now bounces off the real card rect and goes "bonk" at each wall - the welcome dialog waves hello, and Quick Start's connection legend shows the three chip moods instead of coloured squares Respects prefers-reduced-motion. Starting a new page build also resets the warnings log's version, so a reloaded page renders the existing history instead of an empty log. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018LkTtn7owaEfndzBhZ3jbE
Both read as anime rather than as this robot. Celebrating now squints happily instead of starring, and nothing blushes: the greeting, the giggle, the happy idle and hovering all keep their other beats. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018LkTtn7owaEfndzBhZ3jbE
The robot buddy — now named Waldo in the docs and help — loses the rest of its manga shorthand: no pupil glints, sweat drops, tears, sparkles, music note or cat mouth, and a flurry of pokes gets plain X eyes instead of spirals. The E-STOP alarm stays serious. It also behaves better as a status light: - only the simulator buddy dozes off; on a live or lost hardware connection a sleeping robot would read as "offline" - a Calm robot switch in Settings stills the idle fidgets, breathing, pointer-following and sleep everywhere Waldo appears; reactions to the robot still play - the left antenna bulb turns red while the motion recorder runs, and both glow warm while an AI agent holds the control lease; the chip tooltip names either - it shrugs when a jog runs a joint into its limit and nods when a calibration homing completes The docs legend shows the three chip moods as SVGs instead of coloured squares. Two fixes found along the way: - the settings scroll content grew to its widest description, clipping every right-aligned control (the Theme and frame selectors included); it is now pinned to the panel width so descriptions truncate - the path preview let a program's sys.exit() escape as SystemExit; the preview now stops where the real run would, keeping what it planned Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018LkTtn7owaEfndzBhZ3jbE
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What
The connection chip's static robot face becomes Waldo, a small animated character that reflects the robot's state everywhere the app shows status.
It's one reusable NiceGUI element,
RobotBuddy(components/robot_buddy.vue+.py), replacing the three face SVGs and the globalrobot-faces.js. Multiple instances can live on a page, each with its own timers and cleanup.Moods
Changes between moods animate: it hops when it connects, slumps when it disconnects, and shows relief when an E-STOP clears.
Chip behaviour
prefers-reduced-motiontoo.Other appearances
unpkg@latest/lottie.hostand so broke offline.docs/index.md) uses matching SVGs.Fixes found along the way
sys.exit(): a program callingsys.exit()madeSystemExitescape the preview. The preview now stops where the real run would. Regression test included; it fails without the fix.Tests
tests/test_robot_buddy.py(user fixture, real paths): E-STOP and motion; program outcomes and warnings; limit shrug and homing nod; REC and agent lights (real MCPtake_control); simulator-only sleep and the Calm setting. Each was checked to fail with its wiring removed.tests/test_robot_buddy_screen.py(browser): greeting, pointer tracking, click→giggle→dizzy, E-STOP visuals.tests/test_simulation_services.py: theSystemExitregression.Locally, the affected suites pass (124 tests).
CI note
mainhas been red since #47 (ImportError: cannot import name 'TickIndex'): it pinswaldoctlv0.12.0, and no tagged parol6 pairs with the waldoctl it now needs. Expect the same failures here until new waldoctl/parol6 releases land; nothing in this PR touches that. On a local run with waldoctl v0.13.1 + parol6 v0.7.0, the only failures weretest_collision_viz*/test_mcp_world, which fail identically onmain.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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