RobotBrain

Very cool! I'm very interested in raspberry pi hardware control. I've built a car similar to yours, you can find out more about it on my website here: http://jack.minardi.org/raspberry_pi/android-controlled-toy-... I am slowly building up a raspberry pi hardware control python library. My goal is to do as much as possible on the Pi without bringing an Arduino into the mix. You can check out the code on github: https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain Let me know if you want to chat, I love talking with others interested in Raspi hardware control.

Clickable links: https://gist.github.com/jminardi/5022297 https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/y-combinator-hardware-hacka...

My team designed and prototyped a haptic feedback glove. Here is some of the technical information on this hack. The fingers are actuated by a small hobby servo. I don't know the techincal details of this specific servo but it seemed to be a faily typical small servo. The servo arm is connected by twine through a series of braces to the fingertip. When this servo is actuated it pulls back on each finger opening the hand. All of this is hotglued to a work glove that can be worn. For the demo at the hackathon we used a ping sensor to control the servo position. The closer the wearer moved their hand to the ping sensor, the more the hand was opened. But the idea is that any sort of sensor or data source could be used to drive the glove. The servo and sensor were controlled by a Raspberry Pi running python. The control script can be found her

I implemented a socket server in python on the raspi. I wrote a very simple android app that opened a connection to the pi and continuously streamed the x, y, and z coordinates. You can see all the raspi code here: https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain And the android code here: https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain-Controller