Alpha Testers Needed!

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum is signing up.

Any idea if you will be making PC or Android apps anytime soon?

i love this idea, "Big Al" mode seems like a must have feature, that's information I have always wanted but never had an easy way to get from FRC robots.

[tim-tim]

PM sent. The RoboBees are definitely interested in this.

[EricVanWyk]

Wow wow wow! My inbox is stuffed! I'll be responding shortly by PM.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Any idea if you will be making PC or Android apps anytime soon?

We will definitely support Android and iPhone out of the gate. For this alpha we decided to focus on one so we could be a bit more agile in accepting the feedback generated.

As for PC, we did most of our initial development talking to a python app running in linux. This used a bluetooth low energy dongle that registers as a generic serial port, so this method is super portable.

Windows 8 is the first MS OS that offers native support, we are undecided on when to integrate that.

The profile and protocol will be open sourced, and we've already success with a friend of mine hooking up to it with his own program.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

i love this idea, "Big Al" mode seems like a must have feature, that's information I have always wanted but never had an easy way to get from FRC robots.

I'm pretty excited about this one too. Our noise floor in this mode is on the order of microvolts, which means that a foot of 10AWG should be able to resolve between milliamps and a kiloamp... assuming no external noise sources ;-)