pacomms
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So i have been thinking of ways to help omnibot now named T.E.D lol, to be able to navigate room to room indoors on command, my way of thinking is either to use roborealm which i have been told by the guys at roborealm that they are working on a module interface to the EZB, or maybe using indoor GPS over I2C. Anyone got any experience with something like that ? what sort of board etc etc, i kinda have already worked out some code for reading the values and plotting etc etc, im thinking also that at some point he will need wheel encoders as well.
Regards Kurt
Oh you guys looking for something affordable like this?
I scoped it out and tested it myself, so many ways to communicate to it: bluetooth, true RS-232, USB-TTL, & straight-TTL-serial. Unfortunately, no I2C but I'm sure DJ can come up with some simple way that would allow it to work easily with the EZ-B. It even comes with the Antenna!
Another cool thing about this product is that you can connect it to Android and/or Jailbroken iOS apps and find out where you are more precisely than the onboard GPS from your phone/tablet. Use it when you go out in the woods without the need for cell reception!
Yeah i have got that roborealm module and i use it onanother robot i have, it rocks to be honest but until Roborealm release a proper module for the ezb which i have been told by a developer there that they are working on with DJ's help it would be difficult to interface roborealm with the ezb, however once that is done and the connection works it opens up a whole new world of possibilities with true vison processing. Just have to wait i guess, maybe DJ can tell us how the roborealm integration is going :-)
Regards Kurt
Sometimes rarely I think I stumble across something unique now I realise I'm just miles behind so thanks for the Roborealm info if it is integrated with EZ-B it would be utter coolness Neil
After some more Google-ing I think I have found some more modules which I think are more affordable.
The ones I found are: http://www.roundsolutions.com/shop/products/en/Modules-and-accessories/GPS-Module/Origin-1415-AB1-GPS-Module-With-integrated-Antenna.html" target='_blank' rel="nofollow">module 1 this one supports I2c and a lot of other connection types. module 2, I picked this one because it only requires 3 wires! That should mean something!