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A project log for Skoobot

Tiny robot for Hacking and EdTech.

bill-weilerBill Weiler 04/01/2018 at 22:540 Comments

I have been getting the BLE firmware fleshed out and I proved the mainboard v2 BLE is okay. I watched some youtube tutorial videos on Alibaba and read some articles. One thing that really popped out is a platform is difficult to market, and use cases are important. I kind of have been showing this robot as a platform to write code on, but I think I will have to package something useful so the buyer doesn't have to program.

If you think of use cases let me know. I can then do a survey and find out better what people would like. Here are some basic use cases, that might be fun, to start.

1.  RC style driving with Android phone (start,stop,left,right,forward,reverse,slow,fast)

2. Capture the flag with RC driving, with 2 robots 

3.  Word recognition, robot dances when word is correct

4. Type a word into Android phone, send to robot, robot talks to second robot with word encoded in beeps, second robots sends the word (it thinks you sent) to your phone.

5. Sumo - using a sumo ring, battles another tiny robot

6. Draw trace in app on phone, point phone camera at robot, and by using feedback with cellphone camera, the robot follows your on screen trace.

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