Using iPod Touch to control NASA Robot over wifi

The NASA MiniVGT (more here: http://robolab.tek.sdu.dk/mediawiki/index.php/MiniVGT ) robot is controlled by a simple application on my iPod Touch, providing a touch-joystick and five buttons. The joystick controls the two upper of the three "sections" of the robot, while the four directional buttons control the lower section.
The iPod sends the input data over a UDP socket to a small C++ listener application on my Windows laptop, which in turn acts as a service in Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (by using seDSSP: http://robolab.tek.sdu.dk/mediawiki/index.php/Simple_Embedded_DSSP ). Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is not really necessary, but I already had the service-interface for the robot, and it seemed like a nice tech to have in any case...;)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ipod
• ipod touch
• iphone
• nasa robot
• vgt
• sdu
• university of southern denmark
• robolab
• robot
• syddansk universitet
• wireless

[sonicwavezor]

@durbales I don't have any experience with Symbian - or Nokia for that sake - and as this was mostly a quick and small hack, it's not something I'm working more on. Creating a simple user interface and a small socket application on Symbian should be absolutely trivial though - do a search for "symbian sdk", and you should get all what you need...;)

[sonicwavezor]

@durbales Cheers :) And if it can send data over wifi it should be rather trivial... It's just a simple UDP protocol afterall...

[inwarddreams]

That's kool