ToyTalk

Inspiration

Laziness.

What it does

Flick the switch.

How we built it

A servo motor reacts to user input through an Android app to a Raspberry Pi that are both connected to the same WiFi.

Challenges we ran into

• We didn't have microSD to USB to flash the microSD card.
• We didn't have display and keyboard and mouse to set up the Raspberry Pi.
• We didn't have ethernet cable to VNC or SSH into the Raspberry Pi.
• OS didn't flash properly to SD card for a bit.
• Not enough hardware supplies (shields).
• Kotlin is weird.
• Segmentation faults in C took a bit of time.
• Trying to SSH without knowing the actual port number needed took a bit of time.
• We ran into countless Gradle sync issues on the Android app development.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It kinda works now?

What we learned

Simple projects can be harder than expected

What's next for ToyTalk

We're done.

Built With

• android
• c
• java
• kotlin
• raspberry-pi