Have you tried mounting the phone in the intended place and using the mirror trick to change the point of view? Might be mechanically simpler than pivoting the entire phone.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Bill Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes that is the app, thanks. I have a version of that original app working > with this rover now - at least in the sense that it can steer the rover > around remotely and in all directions with the single joystick control. I > attached the "IOIO" cellphone (the one that interfaces directly with the > IOIO on the rover) to the forklift with some rubber bands and drove it > around with the "controller" cellphone. It beams out video from the rover! > But a very unstable mounting system, the phone keeps flopping over. :) > > I pulled down your version and will definitely have a look. I have a > little pan-and-tilt mechanism that I put together with this ki > <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CSCBSZY/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1>t. > Maybe I can use your additional joystick to control that, and just add some > up/down buttons for the forklift later. If I get that going I will talk to > you about incorporating it into your version as an option. Or if that > doesn't make sense I could just fork it I guess. > > My thinking is that I can mount a cellphone onto the pan/tilt device and > attach it to the bed of the rover. Should be able to mount some additional > sensors later as well, and have something pretty interesting to experiment > with. I'm concerned about the size of the cellphone though. Ideally it > would be a really small phone, not one of these 4.7" behemoths. I've been > looking around on ebay for tiny Android phones that run Jellybean or higher > and not seeing anything. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ioio-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
