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  Moving the design to production

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  The app

Baby Embeded

Inspiration

We wanted to build an autonomous robot with fun features.

What it does

It's a little robot that can be controlled with the phone and when some event happens the robot triggers fun things :)

How we built it

The robot part was built using Arduino. The application was built using dart and flutter. We connected both parts using a Go server inside a raspberry pi. The raspberry is in charge of reading and sending data to the application and the robot.

Challenges we ran into

• Powering the whole system, we had to assembly our DIY power supply using duct tape and 4 AA batteries.
• The communication between all elements of the system
• Making unknown hardware to work
• Adapting the projects to the hardware availability, initially we wanted the robot to have a camera and follow people.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We built an application using modern frameworks and material design standards although we had no idea about frontend.
• The mounting of the robot is really decent despite not having the possibility to solder.
• We built a scalable concurrent server that handles and syncs all the elements of the system.
• Being able to overcome all hardware issues such as bad battery connector and not having the possibility to solder.

What we learned

• We learned a lot of frontend app design.
• To use new sensors that we haven't use before.
• To write a server in Go that communicates with clients via a REST API and an Arduino via serial concurrently

What's next for Baby Embeded

*Being able to follow people which was our original idea. *Get assembled using 3d print parts and soldering so the system can be reliable.

Built With

• android
• arduino
• dart
• flutter
• go
• raspberry-pi
• rest
• vim