I find myself every now and again making and updating a "wish list" for robotics related stuff. Sometimes its items I want to buy (EZ-Robot was on my list for a while) or find, sometimes it's things I want to make, often its things I would have to invent or build.
As I was updating my list I started to wonder what other folks here wish they had?
At the top of my list I keep wishing I would stumble upon a robot like Atom from "Real Steel" that is in the trash that I simply need to recharge and voilà I'd have an awesome life size humanoid robot for FREE! But in lieu of that fantasy, here are some of my real wish list items:
Hardware: opto-isolater board to safely interface experimental items to I/o lines multi-interface board for multiple touch sensors from 1 I/o line multi-led controller board for multiple LED's from 1 I/o line plug-n-play battery monitor for any battery to any micro
Software: In ARC a feature to add custom controls (specifically, under Add Controls, there would be a "My Controls" where I could create and edit custom controls and save them for future use. Like if I create custom settings for an i2c device I could add it as a control with a icon, specific options and so forth. With EZ-Cloud I could even share it and popular ones might make their way into standard ARC releases?)
In ARC a custom "home screen" for robots with visible LCD screens running the ARC this could let you set your own background, animation and visual feedback for sensor data or software conditions if desired.
General event memory (log every time you said "Do x")
General prediction function (based on event memory, every time you said ("Do x" you most likely also ask for "Do y", the robot could then ask you "would you like me to also do y", based a general prediction function.
That's my current wish/todo list. What's on your wish list?
Justin wrote
"In ARC a feature to add custom controls (specifically, under Add Controls, there would be a "My Controls" where I could create and edit custom controls and save them for future use. Like if I create custom settings for an i2c device I could add it as a control with a icon, specific options and so forth. With EZ-Cloud I could even share it and popular ones might make their way into standard ARC releases?)"
I agree this would be great for controlling device that has an SDK. USB rocket launchers, home automation controllers, etc...
Last year, there was talk of being able to run VB Script or C# script from within EZ Script controls, but the last postings I can find on it are users asking if it is working yet, so I don't think it ever got implemented, but that would meet the need I think of being able to integrate ARC to virtually anything.
Alan