There isn't really a greater context at the moment. It basically started
as a side project when I found the TouchOSC app in the App Store one day.
William and I started driving the autonomous lawnmower with the iPhone
about a year ago, and it sort of developed from that. I started with just
basic communication with TouchOSC (controls, tabpage switching,
accelerometer, and vibrate motor) at first. Then I moved on to reverse
engineering the layout files and the layout transfer system (all available
in pytouchosc).
I then figured out that it would be more useful to have a more modular
system that allowed for tabpages to be added like plugins, so that you as a
user could create a layout from say Teleop, Diagnostics, and AppManager
(still in development). That's the direction that it's headed right now,
but I wanted to get it out there and shake some bugs out and get some new
ideas for the future.
Basically, I got tired of playing Angry Birds, and thought that we should
do more with iPads.
Glad you like it,
~mc
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 14:19, Trevor Jay <
tjay@cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> I graduated from UA, so if I have a bias I'm sure it swings the other
> way and I think this is absolutely fantastic! Having a helper node for
> loading the layouts is just a beautiful extra touch.
>
> Is there a greater context for this or are you just interested in RAD
> development for ROS?
>
> _Trevor
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > +1 Awesome.
> >
> > I might be biased, but it is still awesome!
> >
> > Thanks for this,
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > William Woodall
> > Graduate Software Engineering
> > Auburn University
> > w@auburn.edu
> > wjwwood@gmail.com
> > williamjwoodall.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Michael Carroll
> > <carroll.michael@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Greetings ROS Users,
> >>
> >> I am please to announce a new stack that I've been working on: ROSOSC.
> >> Code and documentation for my "beta" release are available immediately
> on
> >> the ROS.org wiki: http://www.ros.org/wiki/rososc
> >>
> >> ROSOSC is a set of utilities and nodes for interacting with Open Sound
> >> Control hardware and software devices.
> >>
> >> One of the main features is the ability to interact with TouchOSC
> (created
> >> by hexler: http://hexler.net), the iOS application, to create dynamic,
> >> touch-interactive, control surfaces that can be used with ROS. These
> >> control surfaces can be composed of several different types of controls,
> >> such as push buttons, toggle buttons, faders, rotary knobs, labels and
> LEDs.
> >> Most of the controls support two-way communication with ROS, which
> allows
> >> users to change color, position, size, and visibility of all of the
> controls
> >> on the page via ROS topics.
> >>
> >> There are two main ways of interacting with TouchOSC with ROS:
> >>
> >> Using a "default handler" - Simply create a layout file in the freely
> >> available TouchOSC editor, and then launch the ROS touchosc_bridge node.
> >> All of the controls on the page will show up as topics that can be
> >> published to/subscribed to using ROS.
> >> Using a "tabpage handler" - Users can also create a python module that
> can
> >> directly interface with OSC clients. There are many features available
> to
> >> developers, including multiple client support, client join/quit
> callbacks,
> >> and client tabpage switching callbacks. More can be found out on the
> wiki
> >> and API documents.
> >>
> >> API Docs are available on the ROS wiki
> >> Two tabpage handlers are included out of the box:
> >>
> >> Diagnostics_handler - a tabpage for viewing diagnostics and aggregate
> >> diagnostics data
> >> teleop_handler - a tabpage for broadcasting command velocity messages to
> >> holonomic and differential drive robots.
> >>
> >> I hope that you find this useful in your robotics projects, and I'm
> >> excited to see some of the future uses of the TouchOSC and Open Sound
> >> Control interfaces.
> >>
> >> To get an idea of the basic features, I have made some YouTube videos:
> >>
> >> Loading Layouts using ROSOSC: http://youtu.be/ZHHp1WSbQQU
> >> Using the Diagnostics Tabpage: http://youtu.be/xgOYBcAzLBM
> >> Using the Teleop Tabpage: http://youtu.be/iPB_6XdgOwA
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> ~mc
> >>
> >> (Ken, I have already added this to the indexer)
> >> --
> >> Michael Carroll
> >> http://mjcarroll.net
> >> Electrical Engineering Graduate Student
> >> Auburn University
> >>
> >
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