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


ESP8266 Pin Map


TouchOSC Interface

OSC Connection Settings

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.