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BB-8 ESP8266/TouchOSC/Arduino WiFi Robot Remote Control

Use your existing smartphone/tablet to control a a robot like BB-8 with TouchOSC.

This example is a demo to control the Star Wars BB-8 lifesize robot that I am building but can be adapted to control any robot.

Connect ESP8266 to Leonardo

![Alt text](/ESP8266/ESP8266 Leonardo.png?raw=true "Connect ESP8266 to Leonardo")

ESP8266 Pin Map

![Alt text](/ESP8266/ESP8266 Pin Map.png?raw=true "ESP8266 Pin Map")

TouchOSC Interface

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OSC Connection Settings

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This was designed using TouchOSC app as remote control. This is a not a free app but is cheap and works great! It´s available for IOS and Android.

TouchOSC has a layout editor for PC. Download and install from http://hexler.net/software/touchosc (go down to the download section). Open the layout BB-8.touchosc on the editor and follow the instructions to send the layout to your smartphone/table using your WiFi network.

The code for setting up the AP from B-ROBOT https://github.com/jjrobots/B-ROBOT

Tested on Arduino Leonardo/Micro.