EEGbiofeedback
Hi,
Just did a search through the forum and didn't see anyone using this here yet.
This is the smartest sensor I've seen so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43xJs3Roqg
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110913548697960843112 Here's one person's use that's quite similar to my desires:
" I use the Tango for full autonomous behaviors around my house. I can start the robot in any room in my house and tell it with speech recognition to go to any other location in my house and it can safely travel to that location. I can sit on the couch, take off my shoes, and say "take them to the closet" and it will take my shoes to the closet......once it gets there it can't do anything with the shoes since I haven't given it arms yet........but the arms are very close to being added into the design.
My favorite trick so far is telling it to go wake up my kids in the morning......the robot travels to the bedrooms and starts and alarm until they get up and use the touch screen face to turn off the alarm.
I have been creating the developer SDK for all aspects of the robot in Java, but a Unity SDK will be coming soon. "
So far there are only about 3,000 of these sold and only 5 of us using them for robotics. I'll create a tutorial once I get it interfaced with the EZ-B v4 via the USB and can turn on an LED.
Best,
Bill
Quick! Buy it before Alan catches up with you: https://store.google.com/product/project_tango_tablet_development_kit
I didn't have the money for it either but I committed my first born child to Google. It's a new program they offer if techiness is in your DNA.
Just found this:
Regarding waiting for someone else to build a plugin, that was my intention also but we all know what path is paved with good intentions.
Bill
This is exactly why I made it public that I wouldnt be working on this one. I have enough plugins to complete and just decided that the others will never get finished if I go down this rabbit hole...
Regarding interfacing with it. I've seen bluetooth, micro USB OTG to female cable, and I connected with it through WIFI with EZ B's build an android interface builder.
I wasted a day searching for "Project Tango interfacing, USB, bluetooth connectivity". Then I went Dah, it's an Android OS. There are 1000s of links and how tos out there. The differences are adding the portions from the SDK for loading the Area Learning Files etc.
Cheers,
Bill...
Here's the bot body I've begun installing the Ez B / Project Tango (PT) brain into. I'm going to start by making it just remote controlled via that super cool iPhone Sensor Streamer app interface DJ added to ARC. Then when someone breaks the PT code, I'll add that device. I still have about 2 months left of construction of the new home / office that this thing will interface with.
It's 19x16x6 inches or 48.26x40.64x15.24 cm
This is that cart project I've been planning for about two years.
Best,
Bill
@Bill,
Did you find any information or videos using the Tango with Robots ?
I found these 2 links (not positive views):
https://www.reddit.com/r/computervision/comments/44o2vl/psa_do_not_buy_a_project_tango_dev_kit/
https://np.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/45bl1i/problems_and_limitations_of_google_tango_slam/
I've been keeping an eye on the project and Google group. Added tango to my google keyword search so I get updates. The mental barrier I'm having at the moment is a practical application for robotics considering its form factor, availability, price and development challenges.
Although I really really want to see a plugin utilize the data. And the hacker in me wants to jump in and okay with this thing. The responsible adult with a list of immediate ezrobot priorities says otherwise
This project needs hackers like you to identify use case scenarios.
The tango v2 will be one to take seriously...
And that assumes that this is not one of those Google projects that lives just long enough to be useful and then they kill it. If they don't find a way to monetize this beyond selling special purpose tablets, it may not continue.
I do wonder how much of the same technology is being used in their self-driving car project(s). If there is a lot of overlap, that could keep it alive even for a small development community.
Alan
It seems to be some awesome piece of tech...I dont think this will be ditched, but could also be outdated or there might be a lot of updates to the product soon!
Its still some sort of a developers edition right now, but it is a big leap into a direction which all of us would like to be heading!
Still super stoked!