aaronps/bluetoothtank

Android library to connect and control a bluetooth tank.

Bluetooth Tank module for Android

This library can be used to connect to this tank using bluetooth.

Also this is an example this is a very small library doing bluetooth communication on Android.

Simple demo @ bluetoothtank-demo.

Demo with touchjoystick @ mbtjoy-demo.

Usage

1. Pair with the tank using your phone settings app, remember the name.
2. Import the module into your project
3. code

BluetoothTank mBTTank = new BluetoothTank("paired_name", listener);
mBTTank.start();

mBTTank.commandSetSpeed(1); // 1..3, to be send when needed

// or

mBTTank.commandSetSpeedNow(1); // send it now

mBTTank.commandUp();
mBTTank.commandDown();
mBTTank.commandLeft();
mBTTank.commandRight();
mBTTank.commandStop();

History

The provider of the tank didn't want to give the protocol, he said we should code our own firmware... as it had something already installed, found the protocol on some files provided, it is a very simple text protocol.