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Or the mobile app can do that already. Not sure if the mobile app control updates realtime on the PC or not (it's been a while since I used ARC).
If neither do it then yes, that would be a good addition. It's something I touched on with Jarvis once but used PHP and a web server to manipulate a live camera image with an Ironman style overlay... that was clunky and a PITA though.
Also, the visual programming approach is different with mobile than PC. The plugin would have to be written entirely separate. Even then, the third party code execution agreement would have the ARC mobile banned from AppStore immediately
The sketch pad in Windows "can"' in theory draw basic shapes for data view / but it's a lot of work and wouldn't be nearly as user friendly as a plugin. One of the benefits to plugins is even though you may start small with a simple bar graph, you will quickly get the hang of it and begin tackling bigger projects - such as levels of power is demonstrating. Mind you, he's picking it up impressively quick! Excited to see what he makes next.
Oh yeah, I can imagine it now... an dynamic hud data display that you overlay on the camera image. That would be sweet! You could send it to the Andriod and iOS as a composite image of the video and the overlay. Then there wouldn't be any of the lawfare that DJ is talking about.
@Rich
True, true. However programming that dude in sketch pad wouldn't be EZ. I would try and make it plug in the values to ez script and press go kinda thing.
Well, I don't want to get a head of myself. I gotta get the gauge done then I'll work through if that HUD thing is something I could actually pull off in a reasonable amount of time.
Or do you want to stick with visual controls for the time being?
I'm up for doing any project! I just ordered the Sabertooth Kangaroo. I've been messing with the cheap h-bridges for so long I didn't realize that the Sabertooth was so feature rich. I may need to mock up some analysis on that one. I'll start a new thread once I get something together.