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Author Topic: Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad  (Read 3225 times)

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Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad
« on: April 09, 2014, 10:34 PM »
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Re: Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2014, 11:22 AM »
Oh goody, now the kids can go outside and play ball without running the risk of getting any exorcise.

Okay, it's kind of tempting...but I'm pretty sure my dogs would kill it. I'm not entirely sure how they would kill it, but I am reasonably sure they would figure it out ... And I do need the exorcise.

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Re: Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2014, 01:39 PM »
I like how they always report things like this as if the Android (or iPhone or whatever) is doing the actual magic.

What's really doing it is the capability engineered into the device that's being controlled. Once you've got that set up you can use anything you want to control it.

The fact it uses an Android/iPhone/iPad is almost incidental. 8)

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Re: Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2014, 01:42 PM »
without running the risk of getting any exorcise.

@SJ - I take it that's something your "little devils" need to watch out for? :P

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Re: Robotic Ball Controlled by Anroid/iPhone/iPad
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2014, 04:06 PM »
Put the ball into a hamster ball into a giant human-sized bubble ball thingy. :D