erichokk
Hi guys,
After seening all those wonderful robots that are created with Ez-robot, I have decided to try my hands on it.
The robot I hope to create is a Telepresence hugs and bunnies home security camera robot. I have a spare android phone lying around hence decided that will be the brain of the robot and will mount this phone to the robot running ez-mobile.
The plan is to use ez-mobile to execute the scripts to control the robot, such as face tracking and moving the servos. I wanted the robot to be interactive, hence will be developing a seperate app that contains an interactive face, basically 2 eye balls and a tiny mouth.
The problem I just could not figure out is how to get my andriod app to interact with the ez-mobile since ez-b v4 will only accept one connection to it's port 23. I read ez-bulider has the script mode server for this purpose, but could not find any indication that ez-mobile has this as well.
Am I going in the wrong track in this design? Any advice will be appreciated?
See: http://synthiam.com/Products/ARC
ARC SDK written for Windows 10 IOT. You need to write all the functions yourself rather than having the ARC GUI, but it can be done.
You can also get perfectly capable Windows 10 machines that are much smaller than 7", but they don't have built in screens. You could however use an Android device running TeamViewer or any number of other remote control apps to provide your screen.
See: https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/8714 for a wide selection.
Alan
I'm still having a hard time understanding what "overlay" means.
Do you have any previous programming experience? If so, it would be pretty easy to load xamarin and use the ezrobot mono library to make an app for telepresence that works on both iOS and android. Its real easy with xamarin and our mono library.
If you wish to use raspberry pi, that will be expensive. This is because you will have a pile of additional hardware to consider, such as a keyboard, mouse, lcd screen, power supply, wifi USB, etc etc
Lastly, I'd recommend a simple touch screen embedded pc from gear best. The one I use on bimbo the clown was $79 on sale and runs Windows 10, wifi, touch screen, 20gb ssd free space after os, and it's only 12v input.
This is the PC I would use if you're not building your own app: http://m.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_237097.html
I've seen it go on sale for 79 bux - when I bought mine.