I said in the other topic, there is a chance I may possibly have attacked your dog and you.
I may also possibly have been the one spinning a second ago.
I said in the other topic, there is a chance I may possibly have attacked your dog and you.
I may also possibly have been the one spinning a second ago.
hehehe.. giving it a little downtime to charge up a bit.. and to get kids to stop being pests.. but I'll bring it back online for a while again later...
Back online for about the next two hours... have fun if you wanna!
She's back online and ready... we're getting snowed in here, just doing some house work and then might actually get to some more amusing stuff later...
I have to admit, it's cool knowing that who is driving it is somewhere halfway across the planet, potentially...
bah, your dog got used to it already... Not interested in flashing lights or moving camera any longer...
heheh.. she freaks out at it when nobody is around, she must think whatever human is present must be controlling it otherwise
A bit like my cat when i had my wifitank running...
Kept poking it when it was standing still, then ran away when it was moving... Until he discovered it had sensors on, and wouldn't run into him, even when the people controlling it kept trying
Personally, I think the auto-docking is the coolest thing to watch. Nice bit of automation there.
Other than the standard Rovio battery (which apparently have problems from the word go) I'm going to research what I can fit into the battery compartment. Right now, it's just seven (two 1200MAH's are in parallel, the rest are 2200MAH in series, but these are used/older NIMH's.) AA NIMH rechargables. The battery bay I will need to measure, but I'm pretty sure I can cobble or find something better than the 3000MaH pack that's standard for the Rovio. The compartment I would speculate could hold 10-12 AA's easily, at worst.
Since the Rovio has I2C, I'll now be looking into interfacing to that.. which will mean I'll probably tap the power pack for Arduino power also. A little extra capacity will always be good.
I figure an RC shop is a good idea as to where to look for a good (cheap) NIMH pack.. got any other brilliant ideas I haven't thought of?
Needs a pincher arm attached so we can move things.
And maybe throw on an LCD screen so we can type messages to you that you can read.
biocow:
Needs a pincher arm attached so we can move things.And maybe throw on an LCD screen so we can type messages to you that you can read.
Or even better, one of those speech chips things, so it can say the message
Good call. Voicebox shield. Then there would be 2 way communication. (Well, except from an iPhone. I don't get sound on it from the Rovio.)
Actually, it supposedly has a speaker onboard and can be used.. though I don't see where in the web client that would be. I know from the API that two-way audio is part of the spec.. and aftermarket user software has implemented Push-to-talk on the browser side, at least from one of the software descriptions I read online. I'll be browsing what's been done, but since the API is entirely driven by the onboard web interface, probably the best solution would be to maybe wrapper it into an embeddable OCX or similar web lib. From what i understand, the current implentation that uses PTT is IE6+ only.
focalist:
Actually, it supposedly has a speaker onboard and can be used.. though I don't see where in the web client that would be. I know from the API that two-way audio is part of the spec.. and aftermarket user software has implemented Push-to-talk on the browser side, at least from one of the software descriptions I read online. I'll be browsing what's been done, but since the API is entirely driven by the onboard web interface, probably the best solution would be to maybe wrapper it into an embeddable OCX or similar web lib. From what i understand, the current implentation that uses PTT is IE6+ only.
I saw a volume slider for the onboard speaker, and turned it up, trying to get my computer to make noise
I looked into the write_i2c command a long time ago. It would be great except that there is no way to set an I2C device address, it always writes to the camera chip address. Perhaps with some deeeeeeep hacking you could use the memory writing commands to set a new I2C address. But I had hoped to use I2C to bypass the nasty effect that every firmware update moves things around so that memory addresses are no longer valid.
How are multiple connections handled?
it appears that multiple users connected actually all have control at the same time (or can act as spectators). A good portion of the time I've also been connected, just watching as others drive her around. By the way, as I keep referring to it as "Her", she deserves a name, don't you think? Got any thoughts, guys?
By the way, it seems when it docks and at other times, the camera brightness resets to unusable values. This is the simple app I am using, typically I am setting the brightness to .6, min framerate to 1, and AGC ceiling to 3. I leave the contrast. Seems to be the best overall.
Interestingly, the debug command set also includes read and write memory.. so maybe it could be tricked .. I sure don't want to reverse engineer the embedded application..
If you want to tweak the video values, here's the application to do it. Remember to set the IP/port in the interface.. it's just an HTML form
I can't hear you talking, sorry...
I did get my picture taken, I fully expect that to be uploaded
Do you got a funny shaped fan?
Yah... I got it from Lowe's... nice kinda avant garde.
Like the Purple walls?
Thanks for stopping it for me
It tends to want to drive to the left, could you look at the wheels and see if they don't have hair caught up in them or something?
Hmm.. will do. Kinda need to vacuum, could just be dust or something. If I remember right, the fan was only like $79, I already had the chain and cord. We like it so much we may be getting a second for our bedroom.