Google Cardboard Xbox 360 controlled Raspberry Pi VR Robot Tank

Here is a project I'm working on that uses a Google cardboard and an XBOX 360 controller to control a robot that streams live stereoscopic video directly to your retinas.

The Android code is actually a service that I wrote that gets data from the accelerometer and magnetometer to calculate the orientation, then sends that data over bluetooth to a Pololu Micro Maestro 6 which drives the servos.

The video streaming service is called UV4L and has a webrtc plugin that serves the video to any local client with a fairly low amount of latency. The documentation can be found here http://www.linux-projects.org ... I set up my phone as a hotspot, and then hit those servers with 2 different browser windows. The browser windows are from an app called Floating Apps.

The xbox controller service is called xboxdrv. Many thanks to this dude http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/2014/10... for writing an awesome python module that interprets pygame events that you can use however you want. Im using a Pololu TB6612FNG motor controller to grab the values from the analog sticks that are converted to PWM which in turn drives the motors.

I would like to give thanks to Brandon from Pololu for helping me with the Micro Maestro servo controller. Excellent customer service!