Video Friday: Control Your Packbot Via Native iPhone App
Writing by lukeanderson on Friday, 27 of June , 2008 at 2:31 am
How many of you have an iPhone? I don’t have one yet, but I’m totally on-board with the new 3G version coming next month. It has a whole slew of new features that will no doubt excite many people, however, it seems that Apple’s awesome phone can also control Packbots.
Rodrigo Guiterrez and Jeff Craighead have created a piece of software that allows them to not only control their Packbot, but also gives you streaming POV video from the bot. It works by hooking directly into the Packbot’s WiFi connection, eliminating the need to pass through a proxy.They are hoping to take advantage of the iPhone’s accelerometer for controls, thus freeing up the entire screen for streaming video.
VIA [ Engadget ]
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Comment by Stefan
Made Saturday, 28 of June , 2008 at 10:35 pm
I recently purchased a Nokia N810 (http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810) and my plan is to eventually be able to use its wifi capability to control a robot and display its POV video as well. If anybody could point me in the right direction to any literature on making this possible it would be much appreciated.
Comment by ethan454
Made Tuesday, 1 of July , 2008 at 9:38 pm
What?? Did you say iphone has an accelerometer in it?? . . . . . . WHY?? that sounds close to useless to me.