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Thanks To Mark over at www. It was very popular at the Google Zeitgeist event earlier this year. I was also keen to make it look more…. The result, after 4 months of experimentation, is version 2.
As you can see this version of the car is styled to nxt robot remote control iphone apps realistic. I also decided to use my iPhone to capture images on the car. The KML file that records the path taken nxt robot remote control iphone apps the car is transmitted using the Dexter Industries Wifi sensor once the car is within wireless network range. The nxt robot remote control iphone apps control allows me to control the drive speed and steering of the car. I can also brake the car to stop it from colliding with obstacles.
Finally pressing a button on the remote. Every time an image is captured the current latitude and longitude are recorded from the dGPS. Opening the KML file in Google Earth shows the path that the car drove, and also has placemarks for every picture you took along the way.
Click on the placemark to see the picture. The image link in the HTML refers to the last image captured on disk. The images are captured by triggering nxt robot remote control iphone apps camera on my iPhone. I use an app called SoundSnap which triggers the camera when a loud sound is heard by the phone. While this is not ideal Bluetooth would be better it does the job for now. I select the pictures in iPhoto and export them to my laptop.
The iPhone will only upload photos when I am in range of a wireless network. Finally the Dexter Industries Wifi sensor is used to wirelessly transmit the KML file to my laptop over the wireless network. First of all we need to get all the data in one place. The KML file refers to the relative path of each image, so we can package the KML file and the images into a single directory.
An example of the output produced is shown below. In this test case I started indoors in my house and took a few pictures. As you can see the dGPS has trouble getting an accurate reading and so the pictures appear to be scattered around the map. I then drove the car outside and started to capture pictures as I drove. From Snapshot 10 onwards the images nxt robot remote control iphone apps more realistic based on where the car actually is. I shot some video of the car driving outside my house.
It was a windy dull day, so the video is a little dark. The fun part is seeing the view from on-board the car!
Manufactured with intellectual properties from Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy. Copyright Robomatter, Inc. Written by Vu Nguyen November 14th, at 1: