Japan had never run out of ideas to make a variety of robotic creations. At this time, a robot creator from Land of the rising sun,Terasaki-san, is create a Walking iPad and iPhone Robots, it has cute wide-eyed and legs.
He has developed a way to communicate with external devices by using headphone jack on iPhone or iPad.
Although, the iPad and iPhone walking robot built by Terasaki is not too special, but this robot is made from two currently popular gadgets, (iPad and iPhone), and many people are interested to find out.
This projectis a software modem, this micro-controller?and iPhone or iPad ,convert between audio signals and digital signal software. Basic principle is that the digital communication over phone lines and analog modems are similar.
Why, iPhone or iPad into a robot ? First high performance, and performance. The iPhone o IPAd has WiFi and Bluetooth communication capabilities it 3G, beautiful LCD touch screen with a good response, hundreds of MHz ARM processor and large RAM and flash ROM is mounted. In addition, accelerometer and GPS required by the robot is built up.
Credit to robots-dreams.com and?reinforce-lab.com/projects/iphone-software-modem
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