Welcome!

This project provides open source software for Apple iPhone, iPad, OSX technologies for fun, control and to explore new ideas for Surveyor cameras and robotics.

The forthcoming releases will allow you to:

• drive your SRV via the iPhone SDK with single/stereo camera vision and virtual joystick control,
• see your GPS-enabled SRVs position via the iPhone SDK using Google Maps technology,
• use your SRV's live camera feeds as OS X Quartz Composer image sources for visual programming,
• simplify the use of SRV in your own OSX applications (example provided)

Note: a developer-friendly version of this codebase has been uploaded as I'm currently time-constrained and several individual have expressed interest in using the code.

Use & Collaboration

To use and collaborate with this project you will need:

• download the free iPhone 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow you to run the iPhoneSRV in an iPhone simulator. This SDK contains the Xcode IDE, iPhoneSDK, Simulator and everything required to compile it in one neat package.

• you'll also require either and single vision or stereo vision robot from either Surveyor Corp or Inertia Labs.

iPhone/iPad device and iTunes

To legally install the iPhoneSRV application on your iPhone/iPad device will require an Apple code signature certificate. To obtain a certificate requires a fee-paid Apple iPhone developer account.

Nick is current looking at possibly offering the iPhoneSRV and iPadSRV through the iTunes store using his developer account.

Credits

Nick has completely rewritten his initial proof-of-concept application originally provided.

You can follow the latest news in the all new thread on the Surveyor forums.

More Open Source Surveyor code projects

There are a bunch of Surveyor-related projects hosted on Google code. See

• the Google Android phone controller http://code.google.com/p/srv1console/
• http://code.google.com/p/surveyor-srv1-firmware/
• http://code.google.com/p/picoc/
• and more at http://code.google.com/u/surveyor.com/