Rovio

Capabilities

• Omni-Wheels allow movement in direction and rotation in place
• Can command motion Forward, Backward, Left, Right, Diagional, and Rotation.
• 3-position neck with camera

Interface

• IP networking with WIFI
• All interaction over HTTP, via ordinary GET requests

Default Settings

• WIFI Mode: Ad-Hoc
• SSID: ROVIO_WOWWEE
• Rovio IP: 192.168.10.18/24
• HTTP Port: 80

Camera Access

• JPEG: http://rovio/Jpeg/CamImg/FOO.jpg (where foo can be just about anything)
• MJPEG: http://rovio/GetData.cgi
• RTSP: rtsp://rovio/webcam

Examples

• Lisp Example Code
• C Example Code

Quirks

• Rovio must be turned ON in order to charge

Links

• Robo Community — The community for Rovio. Has lots of smart people that can help debug hardware issues and more up to date information about features available in the Rovio.
• WowWee Support — Rovio Software, Manuals, cgi APIs and such (the latest cgi API, v1.3, can be found here)
• PyRovio — Python library, licensed under UBPL (like MPL)
• Roviolib — .NET library, permissive license