RoboRealm Robot Video
Here's the video of my rover being controlled by the keyboard... something you can see in the video that I didn't mention in my post is that I mounted my wireless camera on a motor, and can pan it up and down using the Page Up and Page Down keys - this lets me see more when using the camera to navigate.
One thing I noticed after making this robot is that controlling it from the keyboard feels like playing a very realistic video game. :P
-Jonathan
P.S. Another thing I did with the keyboard function is make a NXT Messenger. I can type a message on my keyboard up in my room and someone can read it two floors down on my NXT display screen. :-)
One thing I noticed after making this robot is that controlling it from the keyboard feels like playing a very realistic video game. :P
-Jonathan
P.S. Another thing I did with the keyboard function is make a NXT Messenger. I can type a message on my keyboard up in my room and someone can read it two floors down on my NXT display screen. :-)
Comments
Your NXT Messenger could come in handy when someone has the Flu and needs something...the robot could bring it back.
Chris
- a video call would give you the camera display
- using the API Skype provides, either chat or the App2App one, you could send the RoboRealm commands over the net
https://developer.skype.com/
Good idea... it would work perfectly in our case, since the "something" we would probably need would be the robot itself. :)
Vincent,
That's an interesting idea, but I probably won't get into it... I don't have Skype anyway.
Jim,
Lol, I'll have to CAD it then, because there's no way it's going to survive until April. :P
-Jonathan