Hi,<div>Micah has code running on the Propeller that turns the Propeller into a USB host. He's already supported all sorts of devices- including a $2 Bluetooth module. See here:</div><div><a href="http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=121321">http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=121321</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This should make it possible to easily interface the Propeller (and it's 32 high speed all purpose IO pins) to any phone which can be a USB host/slave.</div><div><a href="http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=121321"></a>Hanno<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Charles Manning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cdhmanning@gmail.com">cdhmanning@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
WRT phones for robotics.<br>
<br>
Well clearly it must be an Android phone :-).<br>
<br>
Although there are exceptions, USB on phones tend to be device only<br>
and thus can only communicate with a USB host (PC etc). That really<br>
limits their usefulness in connecting to cheapie micros etc.<br>
<br>
The easiest connectivity out of most phones is Bluetooth. This just<br>
looks like a regular serial port. Youtube shows various projects where<br>
a Mindstorms is used as a mobile base being controlled by an<br>
application on a phone.<br>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Richard Jones <<a href="mailto:rjtp@ihug.co.nz">rjtp@ihug.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> Our first Kiwibots meeting following the earthquake took place at the<br>
> Canterbury Innovation Incubator, 200 Armagh Street on Wed 15th September.<br>
> Thanks to the folks at CII for taking us in at short notice and especially<br>
> to Pete who spent a lot of time letting us in. There were about 20 or so in<br>
> attendance, thanks especially to those who brought things to show. There is<br>
> good news from Science Alive, their building is re-opening and should be<br>
> available to us for the next meeting which should be on Wednesday 20th<br>
> October, 6.30pm, in the Science Alive Seminar Room.<br>
><br>
> Here is a description of what I saw, please email me with missing items,<br>
> missing names and details by 12.30pm Saturday and I will add them to the<br>
> write up before publishing on the Web site and to the Brightsparks site.<br>
><br>
> Robin brought along a working demo of an AVR butterfly hooked up to three 1<br>
> wire temperature sensors and window winder motors driven via a relay board<br>
> ready for installation in his greenhouse.<br>
><br>
> Charles had large colour photos of his home built CNC machine and sound<br>
> reducing box that he used to machine many of the parts for his Dalek that we<br>
> have seen previously. Also Charles bought along a larges box of small<br>
> stepper motors.<br>
><br>
> Kay had his latest adaptation to his walking legs remotely controlled and<br>
> steerable zimmer frame with a horrid laugh. The legs are now very powerful<br>
> and lifelike running nicely with an amazingly effective spring in the feet.<br>
> Even the steering linkage has simple and novel design solutions to awkward<br>
> change of direction problems. We did wonder if he can walk backwards?<br>
><br>
> Hanno brought along the latest progress to T-Bots and 12-Blocks now running<br>
> under Linux and Mac OSX. The port from Windows involved huge amount of work<br>
> to overcome the real time issues of integrating with each OS. Hanno had a<br>
> nice demo of a 3 axis accelerometer display hooked up through 12 blocks<br>
> capturing plots of low frequency seismic activity. The MEMS accelerometer a<br>
> LIS3LV02DQ was deadbugged onto a Propeller Demo board and has an I2C<br>
> interface. Hanno also had a print of his new company logo coming out of a<br>
> web competition that he ran, find it here: <a href="http://onerobot.org/" target="_blank">http://onerobot.org/</a><br>
><br>
> William bought along his huge LED displays functioning nicely as a clock.<br>
> Sorry I didn't get to meet you William so can't say much more...<br>
><br>
> I brought along a GPS receiver (a $35US deal extreme sku 19498) hooked up<br>
> via gpsd server to xgps showing the satellites, navit turn by turn<br>
> navigation, tangogps map/satellite display and opencpn chart plotting marine<br>
> navigation software.<br>
><br>
> I also spent a fair bit of time looking at a Samsung Galaxy S phone which<br>
> caused me to wonder which phone would be the most mobile platform robot<br>
> friendly? Certainly the Samsung with its micro USB port could easily bring<br>
> out friendly IO to an AVR or Parallax board.<br>
><br>
> Paul Davey brought along an audio amplifier PCB that he had designed, fresh<br>
> from being etched and drilled in the morning.<br>
><br>
> Apologies for things I have left out and lack of photos, hopefully we'll be<br>
> back to normal next time.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Richard Jones<br>
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