Tag Archives: Zx-Bluetooth

Controlling a Robot with Gestures on the Air with Leap Motion Controller

Introduction For decades, motion controls have held a persistent place in our visions of the future. We’ve watched the super heroes, mad scientists, and space cowboys of popular media control digital experiences with just a wave of their hands. We’ve … Continue reading

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BlackBerry 10 Accelerometer Sensor ”AccelMote” Control of a Robot

Introduction Smartphones running BlackBerry 10 have many sensors that collect data about the phone’s external environment. Some are low-level, real-time sensors such as the accelerometer, and others are higher-level, event-driven sensors, like the holster sensor. The following sensors are present in … Continue reading

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Android Basic Gestures of Swipe to Control a Robot

Introduction Basic gesture of swipe to control movements of a robot can be quite interesting, and may add intuitive interactive dimension to electronic projects. I have published in this blog several tutorials on 8051-based robot controlled with bluetooth-enabled cell phone. … Continue reading

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Android controlled robot via bluetooth

Introduction Having recently bought an Android phone, I thought it would be a nice endeavour to control a robot with such a device. Android being open-source, attracts a large following, and hence there are many different ready-made solutions that can … Continue reading

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Bluemote – remote control of a 8051 robot with bluetooth

About the author: Pedro Vicente, 21 years old,  is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering student at Institutto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. During the Summer of 2010 spent a month at ALIATRON as a trainee, when among other projects did … Continue reading

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Controlling a robot with bluetooth-enabled cell phone

Tested on Nokia N97 and Blackberry Bold 9700. Introduction After having recently designed a virtual gamepad to control a robot, making use of a serial bluetooth device, I thought why not do the same with a cell phone. My Nokia N97 … Continue reading

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Bluemote – A Virtual Gamepad for Bluetooth Control of a Robot

This application was born after a student trainee, Pedro Vicente, spent his Summer at my company Aliatron and did a technical project with a 8051-based robot “Robo-51” from Inex . Pedro has already published here in this blog, his work that is based on … Continue reading

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