RoboDS Public Interface
You can now control my prototype RoboDS bot located in my basement in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Please go to natrium42.xyz/robot. Yes, the robot does have a laser 😛
The setup consists of open RoboDS prototype and DSerial2, 3 cameras, an old computer acting as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides periodic photos uploaded via FTP. Second camera is Logitech webcam, it provides top view video stream to the driver. Third camera is a wireless spy camera attached to the bot itself. It provides first-person view to the driver. The web interface uses AJAX with a PHP back-end to control the bot as well as to control the queue of people. Main concerns were the number of people and security. I cannot host all the people from my home connection, so I can only provide live video stream to the driver. Other people in the queue can see the digicam photos periodically uploaded via FTP. Security was needed so that it wouldn’t be possible to cut in line or view the live video stream or control the bot despite not being in the driver position.
Most of the schematics are available at NaWiki. A hi-def assembly video will be posted soon.
Special thanks to my brother Ivan (Xploder) for Flash code as well as part of the PHP code.
Here is a video of the hardware setup:
March 5th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Thank you for posting this interface. It’s extremely fun and I hope that the time I have spent on the robot has not messed up your basement in any way :).
March 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Awesome work! One of the coolest DS hardware projects ever.
March 5th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Awesome! I love the laser on it.
I submitted it to digg… hopefully your turn-taking system will prevent a digg from totally bringing it down:
http://digg.com/hardware/Control_a_robot_over_the_web_in_real_time_Oh_yeah_it_has_a_LASER
March 6th, 2007 at 6:59 am
Streaming does not work anymore (not only for me)
I get an white window and that’s it.
Would be cool to solve this problem
March 8th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
now there is a ramp and much more stuff!,
still waiting for the fog :E
March 11th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Thats very cool 😉 your are awesome natrium tks for let us control it that was fun ;-D
March 12th, 2007 at 11:30 am
[…] Watch the video here […]
March 12th, 2007 at 11:49 am
What does the DS do? Is it only there for aestetic reasons or is it the brain of the robot otr something?
March 12th, 2007 at 11:49 am
[…] Watch the video here […]
March 14th, 2007 at 4:33 am
[…] zu sich nach Hause bestellen. Wer sich die Kontrolle selbst nicht zutraut, kann auch ein Video des Ganzen in Aktion […]
March 15th, 2007 at 9:09 am
[…] RoboDS est une plateforme ouverte de robotique basée sur la console de jeu portable Nintendo DS. Ce kit robotique est basé sur la carte dserial 2, qui comprend des ports séries et USB 2.0, un détecteur de proximité. Cette carte comprend un micro-controlleur 8051 cadencé à 24Mhz et permet de connecter une Nitendo DS a des capteurs, moteurs, ordinateur, etc … Cette carte est reprogrammable depuis la DS. Vous pouvez consulter une vidéo de démonstration de ce robot. […]
March 17th, 2007 at 1:31 am
hey nat! congrats man, I saw this on NewScientist’s Tech Blog of all places.. 😀 (redirected to EnGadget)
March 18th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I saw this on engadget
March 19th, 2007 at 12:26 am
The DS-Robot is very like, I want to buy in earily, you can submit the details
consisting, include software? I want to copy the DS-Robot set in my HOME
for my control with my baby, THE sale package include PC control software,
I wait your mail
March 21st, 2007 at 11:53 pm
allblogged
http://link.allblog.net/3363122/http://m-yan.net/157
parkozed
http://www.parkoz.com/zboard/view.php?id=express_freeboard&page=1&sn1=&divpage=34&sn=off&ss=on&sc=off&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=184790
March 24th, 2007 at 2:46 am
[…] sa cave avec une caméra video: vous pouvez même la piloter depuis votre nagivateur au travers du RoboDS Public Interface. (d’après un article du blog pasta and vinegar […]
April 16th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Great work!!!!
I saw a bug… a real bug… it was running around in your basement.
couldnt catch it with the robot.
this robot needs a stronger laser to fight insects like cockroaches.
it would be the first real 3d shooter.
greetings from münster/germany
April 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
[…] mir nur noch übrig, euch in eurer Vorstellung viel Spaß mit natriums DS-Roboter zu […]
April 26th, 2007 at 4:35 am
sharks/robots with lazers on their freakin’ heads
April 26th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Im interressted in buying the kit, but I see on the video you are using a ds lite . Im planning to buy the kit for my old ds (the big grey one), is it compatible ? And a few questions .
Does the kit have the pre-cable power sources for the wireless camera ?
Do you provide the server software to be able to control it via network ?
Thanks and bravo for this stuff its brillant .
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
[…] RoboDS Prototype was the first robot to use RoboCtrl. It has the following features: […]
June 18th, 2007 at 2:39 am
Super neat! The diagonal buttons don’t seem to work, though. I punched them many times, but only once did any of them do anything.
Unfortunately, I somehow managed to get all the toys pushed into corners despite trying to push them into the middle of the “room” 😛
July 19th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Wow!! Awesome!!
Can I have exact name of the spy cam(the one attached to the robot) you’re using?
I’m interested in making similar robot~
July 19th, 2007 at 12:37 am
[…] as a camera server and my webhost. One camera is a Canon PowerShot A70 and provides pe[…]read more | digg […]
July 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am
ddragoons, it’s just a wireless spy camera from eBay. They are pretty cheap, but usually pretty short range if used within the house.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
[…] read more | digg story Posted by seethepost Filed in news […]
February 10th, 2008 at 2:45 am
you can buy that here
http://www.electrobee.com/robods-p-21.html
July 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
natrium42, recharge the dang battery!