Use a simple iOS application to control a Magician Robot via Bluetooth LE. A virtual joystick is used on the iOS device to manipulate two differentially controlled PWM motors on the Magician Robot. Three degrees of freedom is possible (any direction on the cartesian coordinate, rotation about an axis, and speed control).

Dependencies:   BLE_nRF8001 Motordriver mbed

Fork of adrianrobotproject by David Whitney

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+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "BLEPeripheral.h"
+#include "motordriver.h"
+#include "stdint.h"
+
+//*******************************
+// Must define Serial serial and SPI spi
+// BLE_RDY and BLE_REQ
+//*******************************
+
+Serial serial(USBTX, USBRX);
+// The SPI construct, REQN and RDYN IO construct should be modified manually
+// It depend on the board you are using and the REQN&RDYN configuration on BLE Shield
+SPI spi(p5, p6, p7);      
+DigitalInOut BLE_RDY(p8);  
+DigitalInOut BLE_REQ(p9);
+DigitalInOut BLE_RST(p10);
+
+//Motor Pins
+Motor left(p21, p22, p23, 1); //pwm fwd ref has brake feature
+Motor right(p26,p25,p24, 1);
+
+//maybe ir sensors
+
+/*----- BLE Utility -------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+// create peripheral instance, see pinouts above
+BLEPeripheral            blePeripheral        = BLEPeripheral(&BLE_REQ, &BLE_RDY, &BLE_RST);
+ 
+// create service
+BLEService               uartService          = BLEService("713d0000503e4c75ba943148f18d941e");
+ 
+// create characteristic
+BLECharacteristic    txCharacteristic = BLECharacteristic("713d0002503e4c75ba943148f18d941e", BLENotify, 20);
+BLECharacteristic    rxCharacteristic = BLECharacteristic("713d0003503e4c75ba943148f18d941e", BLEWriteWithoutResponse, 20);
+/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+ 
+
+unsigned char buf[16] = {0};
+unsigned char len = 0;
+
+
+int main()
+{
+  
+  serial.baud(9600);
+  serial.printf("Serial begin!\r\n");
+ 
+/*----- BLE Utility ---------------------------------------------*/
+  // set advertised local name and service UUID
+  blePeripheral.setLocalName("BLE Shield");
+  
+  blePeripheral.setAdvertisedServiceUuid(uartService.uuid());
+  
+  // add service and characteristic
+  blePeripheral.addAttribute(uartService);
+  blePeripheral.addAttribute(rxCharacteristic);
+  blePeripheral.addAttribute(txCharacteristic);
+ 
+  // begin initialization
+  blePeripheral.begin();
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------*/
+  serial.printf("BLE UART Peripheral begin!\r\n");
+  
+  while(1)
+  {
+      BLECentral central = blePeripheral.central();
+    
+      if (central) 
+      {
+        // central connected to peripheral
+        serial.printf("Connected to central\r\n");
+        
+        int count = 0;
+        float leftval = 0;
+        float rightval = 0;
+        while (central.connected()) 
+        {
+          // central still connected to peripheral
+          if (rxCharacteristic.written()) 
+          {
+            count = 0;
+            unsigned char len = rxCharacteristic.valueLength();
+            const unsigned char *val = rxCharacteristic.value();
+            
+            //1 = north, 2 = south, 3 = east, 4 = west
+            leftval = sqrt(pow((float)val[0]/255,2) + pow((float)val[2]/255,2)) - sqrt(pow((float)val[1]/255,2) + pow((float)val[3]/255,2));
+            rightval = sqrt(pow((float)val[0]/255,2) + pow((float)val[3]/255,2)) - sqrt(pow((float)val[1]/255,2) + pow((float)val[2]/255,2));
+            
+            if (leftval > 1) leftval = 1;
+            if (leftval < -1) leftval = -1;
+            if (rightval > 1) rightval = 1;
+            if (rightval < -1) rightval = -1;
+            
+            left.speed(leftval);
+            right.speed(rightval);
+            
+            serial.printf("%f,   %f\n", leftval, rightval);
+          }
+        }
+        // central disconnected
+        serial.printf("Disconnected from central\r\n");
+      }
+    }
+}
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