Put injection molded plastic in Cap'n crunch boxes and we might hit the big time 😇 On Jan 7, 2015 12:23 AM, "Ytai Ben-Tsvi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > -- 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.
