This is a Java and Groovy UI that controls a Rovio Robot with a Sidewinder Joystick. Pretty much nay 3 axis Joystick should work.
It incorporates the recent Video brightness improvements by Gandalf
It has a video window so you can see where you are going.
The Joystick control uses the z-axis to rotate, the x-axis to move sideways with proportional speed control and the y-axis to move forward and back. It is a very intuitive way to drive a Rovio.
The two side buttons on the Sidewinder move the Camera head up and down, short presses move it up a little so it can have more than three positions.
All the library dependencies are in the ./libs directory.
The UI uses SwingBuilder from Groovy for the UI, which makes it pretty easy to write and modify.
Currently it can to be built with eclipse and the groovy/eclipse plugin. Also buildr will build it.
The admin login for the Rovio can be entered on the command line as hostname username password, or left blank and the first time the program runs it will ask for the login and store them in the Java default preferences location.
Under eclipse you need to add -Djava.library.path=./libs to the Run configuration or use the RovioConsole.launch which has it already setup.
Also in the Preferences/Groovy/Compiler check the Enable script folder support and add src/main/resources/**/*.groovy to the exclude list if not already there.
You can also build from the command line using buildr
Presuming you have a ruby in your path...
gem install buildr
then
buildr test=no package
then it can be run with
run
or
run hostOrIP username password
or
buildr test=no run
To set a username and password for the buildr run you can create a
file in the project directory called user.local.yml and put the
following in it..
rovio:
host: ip or hostname
username: myusername
password: mypassword
Currently only tested on Linux, however there is a joystick dll in the libs directory, so it should work on windows if the dll is on the PATH.
Once running click the start button and the video window should appear, then the AGC or Night mode can be set or the resolution from the UI, the rest is controlled from the joystick.
The Status bar at the bottom shows the frames per second we are getting via MJPEG, what we are connected to, and the approximate battery level.
Copyright Jim Morris 2011 Licensed under Simplified BSD License
The Java Joystick library is Copyright 2000-2001 George Rhoten and others. Available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/javajoystick/