Before assuming that the title should be “web crawler,” just shush your shussins’ and check out the video after the break. The Pinoccio, as previously noted, is a board in development as a sort of web-enabled by default Arduino. This makes it perfect for a project like this one where a little rover is controlled from 10,000 Kilometers away, or around 6000 Miles for those of us that dwell in the US.
This setup uses a cell-phone accelerometer in Brazil to allow control of this robot in Nevada. Although close, the control isn’t quite real time, so that has to be accounted for. Something like this could be easily used for a telepresence ‘bot.
If you want to build your own, the assembly time is estimated at 1 hour. Instructions, as well as source code can be found on their page after the video. Although the Pinoccio board won’t be available until at least this summer, maybe this will give someone inspiration to try something similar in the mean time!
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/59068284 w=470&h=300]
What would you call the 3pi’s type of chassis? Does anyone make a similar kit for the Arduino or launchpad?
You can run a 3pi from any microcontroller that has a serial port. The 3pi actually has its own AVR328p on it for sensor detection and motor control. We were just sending it commands found here: http://www.pololu.com/docs/0J21/10.a
We’re huge fans of Pololu, they’re a great group of people, and really solid products.
Is “shush your shussins'” a personal saying or some marketing phrase for the device?
Pinoccio, they might have misspelt it on purpose, but it still make me cringe everytime
The “shush your shushins” came from our Inidiegogo campaign video, where we were talking about whether you’re locked into a web/cloud-based API a la Electric Imp.
“Shush your shushins, we know what you’re thinking, ‘Am I locked in?’…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_nM1NfrLkQ If you do it with an android phone you don’t even need web at the arriving end :)
I really hope the Pinoccio platform takes off like Arduino. Having played around with different WiFi solutions, I think something running off batteries effortlessly is really needed in that space. My only worry is price. I hope it will come down with numbers, as this is the type of board you would want to buy tens of, not one or two. The first thing I would build with one is a letterbox sensor, BTW, that notifies me when the postman has come around. No mains power in my mailbox.