Making the most of your toy robot

Caution robots at play

Over the past months at work I have been taking a consumer mobile webcam (robot) and converting it to custom interactive experience. Over the next couple of weeks I will be talking about some of the finer point of taking an off-the-shelf WowWee Rovio (which comes with some fine built-in features) and transforming it into something much more. I will be talking about the following modifications in the coming weeks:

  • Custom hardware controls
  • Processing the video stream in Flash
  • Object detection
  • Docks and Beacons

This is on the side of the Rovio box:

This product is not a toy.

I will be proving this incorrect.

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