Internet Toybox for Twitch and Live Streams

Release of the PI-Zero may have made the RPI a more attractive option for a public-ready version of "Toybox". I've been exploring that, and the results are very promising and does away with the complicated serial library setup. More action on this front is bound to follow.

Kit Available Now for Raspberry PI (A/B)

GITHub:

https://github.com/diemastermonkey/toybox-rpi

Included is a setup guide that should get you up to a remote-controlled servo cam:

https://github.com/diemastermonkey/toybox-rpi/blob/master/toyboxrpi-setup.txt

It does require the pi-blaster package, available here:

https://github.com/sarfata/pi-blaster

Since it's really up to the streamer what devices they want to connect audiences to, this example simply shows how a servo and an LED would be hooked-up, if one were using the how-to vids I've been doing lately.

Psst! An important and most excellent change is about to be announced in this project, stay tuned. Thanks for checking it out!

Yay! Finally a video that covers everything you need to make your own Internet Toybox in only...an hour plus?!

Okay so clearly there's room for improvement in this department - but this extended episode of my Twitch show "Bits Bots Beats" is the first to document the entire process. In theory, a viewer should learn:

• WTF is an Internet Toybox and why the crappy name
• The types Arduino microcontroller to use
• Where to get/how to use the Arduino code
• Where to get/how to configure the Java serial bridge
• Connecting and testing a simple toy (LED)
• Configuring your chatbot for "high level" commands

A better setup vid in surely ahead, but for the time being this is The Setup Vid. Hope you dig...vid.

Toybox Setup from Uno to Showtime

In the first half of my latest Twitch show "Bits Bots Beats", I finally do a Toybox intro that most humans can endure. After some audience warmup, I demo some of the features and then dig into all the gobbledygook behind it, the current state of the project and where I want it to go next.

Thanks for checking it out! More info on the way.

It ain't pretty but hey at least it's finally up on GITHub - here's a rundown:

1. toyboxcontroller.ino : Toybox Controller C Source for Arduino UNO Compaitble
2. MBTCPClient.jar : Toybox Serial/Bluetooth Bridge Java Binary
3. toybridge.cfg : Bridge configuration file with example syntax
4. rxtx* : Fizzed's mfz-rxtx serial ibrary (incl. Windows DLLs)
   

The Java source isn't included yet - I just have to clean it up a bit more first. Stay tuned, k.

If you're a Twitch streamer and you've got an Arduino Uno (ish) and a servo, this should be everything you need to get started.

Next up: Instructions on how to actually get started. ;)

Thanks for tuning in!