Smartphone/Tablet control

[svasiliou]

Project is awesome.
I believe that adding a few buttons (up/down/left/right/tilt) on lower button row, would add functionality with tablet or smartphone. Is that possible or need complete redesign of code?

Also a status of voltage of battery with an MCP3008 ADC will complete control of WATNEY

[nikivanov]

Thanks! I'm currently working on adding 2 way audio so you can use Watney as a presence bot. After that I want to add wireless charging so it could be used indefinitely without needing to plug it in. For the latter part, I've been trying to figure out how to do voltage monitoring with Raspberry Pi - I'll look into the ADC you listed, thanks!

Adding a D-pad control for mobile interface has been on my list for a while, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Stay tuned!

[svasiliou]

There are two interesting virtual joystick scripts
https://github.com/jeromeetienne/virtualjoystick.js (a little complex but more powerful)
https://github.com/cptx032/virtual-joystick (a simple one and I believe more suitable for WATNEY)

[baheamri]

this project so intresting , i wanna know what have you done with the two way audio !!! looking forward for your reply

[nikivanov]

@baheamri what would you like to know?