Scout with iPhone control
Posted January 28, 2009 by Ash
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Cool, I finally got Scout running from my iPhone! It was really easy to set up actually once I got the smooth motor control going on the platform itself.
A while ago I bought a copy of the TouchOSC app for my iPhone so that I could mess around with the OSC protocol over my iPhone’s wireless connection. I had already managed to get a Python script to reliably talk to and control the robot using some wireless XBee modules so all I needed was a way to add an OSC server to the script and connect to that using my iPhone.
Here’s a vid of it in action:
Next up is to re-add the front sensor servo and the ultrasonic distance sensor I got last week.
Software used:
- Open Sound Control (OSC)
- Python
- SimpleOSC for Python
- TouchOSC app for iPhone (Buy it from the App Store)
- Custom firmware (Arduino sketch) running on the robot
Nice work! There’s a lot of fun to be had in just remote controlling your creation…
I just bought an xbox wireless controller to use as a remote control for robotics studio with both my simulated and real robot. I’m working on a blog post for it at the moment.