This post doesn’t have enough Arduino. Do not want

From the site:
“Both the server and the client are written in C#.”
“The eBox provides the brains for the robot. The OS is Windows Embedded 6.0.”

Do Not Want.

Also, this could have been achieved using a standalone bluetooth-enabled Arduino to talk directly to the wiimote. I hate things that are overly complicated.

Yeah if it was done with an arduino then it wouldn’t be anywhere near so heavy and it might not break itself like that. Hamster balls aren’t very smooth either for that sort of thing…

Mowcius

I’ve GOTTA have one! My apartment management won’t allow any kind of living,breathing, type of pet, I’d love to shove THAT into their faces!!!
HA! HA! HA! (well,you get my drift). Now if it could plug itself in for a charge at night.
Hmm… How ’bout a wall wart charger that looks like a water bottle…!

Hi guys,

I was one of the two people who worked on the project so I thought I would clear some stuff up.

The current incarnation of the robot could have been done with an arduino, its true. However, this was for a class project that required the use of Windows Embedded and the eBox was the provided platform. We did not choose these things, they were design constraints.

The eBox provides way more functionality than an arduino or other low power microcontroller. The idea wasn’t just to make a remote controlled ball, but provide a path for future groups to follow and mark the pitfalls of the design. It could easily incorporate vision, tweet, run python, and whatnot if we had the time. Autonomy was a reach goal of the project that would take advantage of the beefier system provided by the eBox.

We briefly mention some of these design choices on the website so check it out.

Thanks for your feedback.

@medix. We found it difficult to locate numbers on it so we just measured. Looks like it pulls 6-7W at 5V with wifi turned on.

I personally own a Beagleboard (http://beagleboard.org/) that only needs 4W and I think we are going to use it as the “brains” now that the class is over and we had to return the eBox.

dont forget that this is final project not self project, the main goal is to finish the dam thing with group where half is morons so its not about hardware wise choice

Oh sure, this needs an arduino for a multitude of reasons, yet you bitch and moan when anything arduino is posted, SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!

Thise Website isnt called adrunio a day you adruino fanboys should just simmer down and check out the xkcd comic 413 then all of this will make a lot more sense besides most adruino projects on this site could be done with a damm 3$ µchip if people would bother to learn how to use them properly the adruino os a treaching tool for people who havn´t learned to use µc s yet so just chill and learn how to design youre own damm µC boards
a lot of you are worth then mac fanboys

Rick:
Use a inductive power transfer system for charging. Just make the device find it’s “recharge mat” that has the needed coil underneath it.
For more easier to aim for also.

For some odd reason, I keep thinking about how this might be used to make something close to the droidekas from Star Wars.

As for the arduino, how ’bout a nice cup of STFU? You got complainants? Redo the project with one or just click on the “x” at the top of your browser. Or better yet, open the command prompt, type “C:\> FORMAT”, press the enter button and have a nice day. I know I will. smh