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UPDATE
We have a youtube video of the demonstration at the last meeting. If I could still edit the main post I would put it in there, but I will put it here instead.

Link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69hdTUtH85k

Also, as far as application stage goes, were just finishing some final issues, and mostly waiting on images for the application, but it should be finished soon.

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Looks nice, can't wait to try it out.

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Wow this sounds really cool!

I don’t think charging 99 cents or even $1.99 is at all unreasonable. For the amount of work and ingenuity you put into this app I'm surprised you aren't charging more.

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That looks pretty awesome! I can't wait for it to come out! We are like right around the corner from you so we would be glad to help or even offer our robot(s) as test platforms for further development.

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This is all well and good, something I am really interested in actually buying (I never buy apps for my itouch), but I have a few questions:
1. If it connects via wifi, what, if anything would have to be done to the gaming adapter on the robot?
2. For joysticks, does the app have virtual joystics on screen, or does it use the accelerometer in the device?
3. How would a user go about changing user I/O? I personally think this needs to be easily accessible at all times.

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1) no changes need to be made to the gaming adapter
2)it uses 2 onscreen joysticks (video page 2) and the accelerometer
2) there is a screen for setting/reading digital IO and the analog inputs

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After so many "gaming adapter problems" threads, it is nice to hear that you seem to have put a lot of thought into this app. I look forward to getting my hands on it. One thought: it might be nice to have the capapbility to set the accelerometer as two joystick axis...

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Currently the way it operates, is there is a settings page that lets you choose which joystick 'port' values are read out on.
ex. If you set joysticks to port 1, and accelerometer to port 2, in the robot code, when you initialize a joystick on port 1 by doing "Joystick j = new Joystick(1);" if your using java, it will read in the virtual joysticks, but a joystick initialized on port 2 would read in the accelerometer.

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According to the forum admin I'm not allowed to advertise on their website without permission (paying for a banner) because of the possibility I am not a 'legit' business. Updates as far as application development goes will still be posted here, but it seems as though I might not be able to post when the application is released or where it can be found or the thread will be deleted. Thank you all for reading this forum and staying interested in this application and I'm sorry that I wont be able to post future release progress.

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Is there some other site where interested parties could follow updates? Your project is a very interesting one, to say the very least.

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UPDATE(big update means big font)
As a way to keep everybody informed on this application on CD, the application will be made free for everybody. That way everybody on chief Delphi can know of it's existence.

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That's awesome!

Where it is going to be free are you considering open sourcing it?

Also, I'd recommend a donation request in the app itself, so people can donate to your project, and then it won't violate CD.

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Sweet! I'd recommend using Github to host the code.

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I wasn't really planning on making it open source, however, if anybody would like me to give them in-depth details of how it was accomplished, I would be more than happy to help them. It will be on Apple's App Store as soon as I get some art made for it and it it approved.

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Will you have a website, where you might be willing to accept .99 donations?