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I want to use my android as a eye for the robot I ...

2012-02-13T04:34:56.817-08:00

I want to use my android as a eye for the robot I have built. The android would be controlled via PC which will further control the micro controller. Now Web Cam app is perfect in one portion to deliver the video to the PC. But I need another utility in the Android which will run to accept commands from the PC. How that can be done?

Any help will be highly appreciated.
I am from India

Thank you for a high quality tutorial! Scriptable ...

2011-10-21T02:26:45.329-07:00

Thank you for a high quality tutorial!
Scriptable devices = future? A dream?
You revealed this is present.

Couple of pitfalls for me... sl4a_r1 is now deprec...

2011-09-13T10:09:39.116-07:00

Couple of pitfalls for me...
sl4a_r1 is now deprecated, and the latest version is sl4a_r4.
JRuby install has a second install step... the initial JRuby app is actually an installer which you need to run.
And you need to unpack into target the tilt gem, as described by the previous comment.
Works... very happy.
:)

Fantastique !, I ve successfully tested on sony Xp...

2011-01-07T12:45:41.311-08:00

Fantastique !, I ve successfully tested on sony Xperia mini, great, just get some issue with tilt, install with cygwin (windows xp)
$ gem install tilt
and
$ gem unpack tolt --target=vendor/gems

many merci!

Great tutorial and program. I have been playing wi...

2010-12-19T13:42:40.418-08:00

Great tutorial and program. I have been playing with Ruby on Rails for a couple of weeks but still tying to run my old app in Ruby192. This works after including the tilt gem into the vendor dir. Sinatra is really simple compared to rails.

One issue is that the Samsung Moment makes a shutter sound when it takes the picture. Kind of defeats the "spy" aspect. Also the server seems to stop running after a while.

Woohoo!! Finally. I got it. This is cool. I did no...

2010-12-05T18:14:25.414-08:00

Woohoo!! Finally. I got it. This is cool. I did not have a tilt.rb file and I also replaced the sinatra base.rb with what was on github. NOt sure which did the trick but I was able to see the snapshot through the wifi connection on my desktop.

/sdcard/sl4a/scripts/vendor/gems/sinatra-1.1.0/lib...

2010-12-05T17:33:14.385-08:00

/sdcard/sl4a/scripts/vendor/gems/sinatra-1.1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:7:in 'require': no such file to load -- tilt (LoadError) from /sdcard/sl4a/scripts/vendor/gems/sinatra-1.1.0/lib/sinatra/base.rb:7

Any suggestions? I saw tilt listed in the base.rb but not sure what path it's looking for the file at.

Nevermind..I'm new to this android scripting.....

2010-12-05T16:34:19.863-08:00

Nevermind..I'm new to this android scripting..I found JRuby now.

I get to the part where I have successfully instal...

2010-12-05T16:27:01.627-08:00

I get to the part where I have successfully installed SL4A. Can you clarify the step to "go to the interpreters menu, and install JRuby"

I found the intepreters menu and ran the shell. What is the syntax for installing jruby?

This is freaking kool... thanks dude !!

2010-09-30T19:46:10.716-07:00

This is freaking kool... thanks dude !!

This is really nice ! Thanks, Niranjan

2010-09-30T12:44:04.674-07:00

This is really nice !

Thanks,
Niranjan

@AJ I get the same error on my HTC magic, after a...

2010-09-07T04:26:46.108-07:00

@AJ

I get the same error on my HTC magic, after a few minutes webrick starts up. Because my phone is rather slow i suspect thats wat's causing the error, works later on.

Great! I tried it on my Nexus One and works! JRuby...

2010-09-04T14:01:35.323-07:00

Great! I tried it on my Nexus One and works! JRuby crashes from time to time, though.

I'll play a bit with this, thanks!

Yo, Doesn't work for me. I get Dalvik VM un...

2010-09-03T20:00:14.803-07:00

Yo,

Doesn't work for me.

I get

Dalvik VM unable to locate class 'org/jruby/Main'
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.jruby.Main

Any ideas?

nice stuff! I knew about sl4a but didn't know ...

2010-09-03T07:39:39.381-07:00

nice stuff! I knew about sl4a but didn't know it was this easy now

Ok Mike, apparently there was already a related is...

2010-09-03T00:39:37.952-07:00

Ok Mike, apparently there was already a related issue (#400), tnx !

Spint, if your camera normally works fine but isn&...

2010-09-02T16:00:10.354-07:00

Spint, if your camera normally works fine but isn't taking pictures properly with this app, it's probably an issue with SL4A and the HTC Hero in particular. You should file a bug here; the team is always improving support for more devices.

At first, camera support for my Motorola Droid was a bit spotty, but I filed a bug and they had it fixed and released within a week or two.

Great tutorial, thanks! One problem however, I hea...

2010-09-02T14:24:32.252-07:00

Great tutorial, thanks!
One problem however, I hear my phone taking the pictures, but they are completely black, any idea?
I'm on HTC Hero, Android 2.1

Sigmar, thanks for the heads up. I fixed the erro...

2010-09-02T10:19:19.816-07:00

Sigmar, thanks for the heads up. I fixed the error, and changes have been pushed here.

It doesnt work, I get this error: spycam.rb:6: sy...

2010-09-02T08:34:28.335-07:00

It doesnt work, I get this error:

spycam.rb:6: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting '}'
...LOAD_PATH << File.join GEM_DIR, dir, 'lib'}
^
spycam.rb:6: syntax error, unexpected '}', expecting tCOLON2 or '[' or '.'
spycam.rb:44: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting '}'

Ooo, super fun! Thanks!

2010-09-02T07:57:50.996-07:00

Ooo, super fun! Thanks!

Nice! BTW, Ruboto now supports creating .apks as ...

2010-09-02T01:17:33.974-07:00

Nice! BTW, Ruboto now supports creating .apks as well: ruboto-core

thanks for sweet script :) connect via 3G network...

2010-09-01T03:18:03.008-07:00

thanks for sweet script :)

connect via 3G network with ssh tunnel(using ConnectBot and my ssh server) - http://flic.kr/p/8xf3BG