Use the FRC Control System to drive a car with an iPhone

[AustinSchuh]

Here's a video of me driving 971's bot with the iphone app I wrote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KgtI4LSijM

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Here's a video of me driving 971's bot with the iphone app I wrote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KgtI4LSijM

That's pretty sweet. Thanks for showing the vid!

Did you need to put any special code on the cRIO, or not since the iPod Touch was emulating the DS, like you said earlier?
Also, were both the iPod and the Gaming Adapter on the robot both connected to the blue router?

Thanks again

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by Pikat

Did you need to put any special code on the cRIO, or not since the iPod Touch was emulating the DS, like you said earlier?

I didn't have to load any special code.

Originally Posted by Pikat

Also, were both the iPod and the Gaming Adapter on the robot both connected to the blue router?

Yes. Since the whole control system is just a network with devices on it, all I had to do was get the ipod and cRIO on the same network.

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

I didn't have to load any special code.

Yes. Since the whole control system is just a network with devices on it, all I had to do was get the ipod and cRIO on the same network.

Okay thanks again!

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

Here's a video of me driving 971's bot with the iphone app I wrote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KgtI4LSijM

Any chance you'll be releasing the app?

-RC

[cbale2000]

After reading through the article my first reaction was... gee I hope one of those Jags doesn't burn out for some reason and lock the accelerator in the "on" position. Could be problematic.


Very cool idea regardless though, even cooler with the different kinds of portable devices you can link to it as well. Just need webcam feedback and you wouldn't even have to be near the thing to drive it!

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

Any chance you'll be releasing the app?

The current implementation hard codes the specific buttons to drive 971's bot, and provides no way to change what virtual button acts like what physical button. If you would still be interested, understanding that you would have to change your code on the robot to use the stick mapping that I hard coded into the app, I can work on getting it on the app-store as is. (I might change the colors ...)

Or, if someone has ideas about an easy way (in terms of developer time) to set which buttons do what, I'm all ears and would be willing to implement it after Finals if it isn't too hard.