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Best BlimpDuino mod ever. iPad control!


"New York-based BREAKFAST fitted a BlimpDuino with on-board video and wireless control system and took it out for a spin at a party to interact with the crowd. Everybody's favorite controller du jour, an iPad, was employed to orient the dirigible and act as a augmented display medium."

Plus a live onboard video feed and headlights!


[From Makezine]

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Jordi Muñoz Comment by Jordi Muñoz on May 19, 2010 at 8:33am
NICE!
Troy Reabe Comment by Troy Reabe on May 19, 2010 at 10:20pm
What program are they using to link the Arduio to the iPad? Anyone know if you can use that program to flash Arduinos?
Knuckles904 Comment by Knuckles904 on May 21, 2010 at 8:16am
Looks to me like a usb or serial connection to xbee->xbee on arduino. I have no idea what an ipad has onboard.
Knuckles904 Comment by Knuckles904 on May 21, 2010 at 8:17am
Actually now that i think of it more, knowing apple restrictions, they probably had to write an app that communicates over wifi to another computer which then is connected to an xbee. I have a feeling the ipad in this instance is nothing more than a 500$ joystick.
Marc Daniels Comment by Marc Daniels on May 21, 2010 at 12:30pm
yeah, the video shows a socket connection to another pc or maybe a local service on port 777. But most likely another PC like that notebook probably doing the xbee commincations and video streaming. An expensive joystick....

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