Why use smart machines?
Said that many people think of Arduino, although it is very easy, but still has a certain threshold. After purchasing the board, you need to purchase a lot of functional modules according to the needs, and these modules are connected in a stacked manner, and the volume will be large. In addition, many modules interface is conflict, and many features cannot be satisfied at the same time. Arduino's software development platform is still based on code operation, and many people have no experience in writing code, so it is difficult to achieve their own ideas.
"The smart machine has a benefit that there is a lot of sensors, and they are well packaged in a hardware."
Hippo-Adk consists of two parts, one is an open source hardware development board, and has a software development platform. The role of the development board is mainly to provide the data of the mobile phone sensor to the hardware peripheral, and this peripherals requires developer design. The software development platform uses a graphical programming mode. Users can develop software through the App Inventor or Java API development software.
A smart robot needs a lot of sensors, but also the screen is able to feedback information, the camera can "see", these mobile phones can do. During Magama, Du Zhipeng's team did a self-balance robot, the balance of the robot commented on the gravity sensor of the phone. At that time, Du Zhipeng also said that through the camera, the robot can also make a simple judgment on the environment, or by screen feedback information. The development board can also access more sensors, users can develop a home surveillance robot to view the home.
"Everyone now has a mobile phone, and they can change the rate, they can have more applications, such as the main body of development."
Overseas has a company called One Sheeld and is also a similar project. But Du Zhipeng said that their idea is not too, the main body of One Sheeld is still a board, so it is still necessary to write code through the computer. Hippo-adk wants to do more simple, with mobile phones as the main body, other hardware are peripherals of mobile phones, develop applications just like developing APPs.
More than doing guests,
There is a photo on their Kickstarter homepage, and Du Zhipeng has a scene of a child playing a robot. He believes that the development platform of such a low threshold is ideal for youth science and technology education.
"Overseas pays attention to this piece, of course, China is also in force, should let the youth learn to learn in the process of playing, rather than writing code for writing code."
Their application development ends uses the platform of Massachusetts Science and Technology, and they also communicate with several professors. They think this product can bring youth science and technology education. In China, they also bring products to the Youth Science and Technology Education Center, through several robots, they will soon attract children's interest in development.
"The past educational hardware has drawings, they let the children build a certain thing with the drawings. But if they are just a platform, people can have more imagination. This platform can quickly realize people's imagination."
In the future they will implement this platform abroad, and improve the product through feedback from overseas users. Domestic and educational institutions and school cooperation.
The pattern they walk is like Arduino, gain profits through the development board, and launch their own services.
"This is not easy, because we must write the tutorial very detailed, let others know what this platform can help them do."
Their ideas are very new, and the general creation product products still have thresholds, which is a bit complicated for those who have not developed. But through the smart machine, they drop this threshold to a very low aquatic product, so that more people can develop, which may be more products that are needed.
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