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  • Autonomous robot uses an iPhone for its brain

                      
    		   
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    wraggster
    Published on June 10th, 2012 22:28
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    At the beginning of the school last year, [Ryan] needed to come up with a project for his master’s thesis. Having a bachelor’s in mech. engineering and doing his graduate work in software engineering allowed [Ryan] to do something really cool for his thesis; he decided to turn an iPhone into an autonomous robot with live video streaming, remote control, and object detection.
    [Ryan] started building his ArduiPhone last October with an Arduino, motor shield, and a Magician Chassis. The software is based on an iPhone network programming tutorial that opens a socket connection to a desktop PC and relays commands to an Arduino serial port.
    One of the more interesting features of [Ryan]‘s ArduiPhone is the ability to stream video directly from the phone to a Java application. Instead of FaceTime, [Ryan] streams videos by converting an image from the front-facing iPhone camera to a byte array, sends it over the network, and decodes the image in a Java app. It’s low-level stuff, but the video quality is excellent and something we’ll probably be seeing more of in the future.
    http://hackaday.com/2012/06/09/auton...for-its-brain/
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Autonomous robot uses an iPhone for its brain started by wraggster View original post
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