May 11, 2015 9:51 PM CEST
Created an account to chime in on this discussion. I think there is huge potential for SBRICK in robotics. Last night I built a super simple little RC MOC and started thinking about the possibilities of robotizing it with SBRICK. I love NXT, but it is bulky, expensive, and pegged to a fairly slow release cycle. SBRICK + Power Functions + a moderate smartphone could provide very similar capabilities, at least when it comes to mobile robots, by leveraging the phone's sensor stack and APIs (accelerometer, gyro, GPS, microphone, speaker, camera(s), proximity sensors, etc.).
Even mild computer vision functionality could be accomplished through the API - for example using Apple's face detection framework to look for and count faces to inform the robot's behavior.
I, for one, would support a separate Kickstarter (or similar) for a kid-friendly kit to bundle SBRICK, a controller app backend, and building instructions for starter robots. A programming component on the phone itself would be great, but support for desktop OS programming similar to NXT would be ideal for me.
This post was edited by Chris H at May 11, 2015 9:51 PM CEST
