Not sure how many of you have seen this, but we added Apple Watch support to the ARC iOS app! For the longest time, no one knew what an Apple Watch was good for
outside of interrupting your productive with Facebook and twitter notifications about who had lunch. Needless to say, it's made the watch quite useful and fun - but it's still way too expensive!
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This is almost enough to get me to switch from Android to iPhone. If you build an AndroidWear version I'll definitely get an AndroidWear watch, which is something I previously had no interest in. If you don't, I'll need to Jumpstart my code learning plans (and add Java so I can write Android apps).
Should actually be easy enough to write an app that talks to the ARC web server or telnet server without the need to have something running on a phone (my plan would be for driving a bot with an embedded computer)
Brilliant stuff, as usual.
Alan
Ah, so the Apple Watch is good for something other than monitoring your fitness. Really nice addition to ARC and iOS. Pretty cool. I can just see @nomad ordering his watch now.
Steve G
hehe not for now.just had some repair on my destop.
yeah - they're too expensive. Realistically, it makes more sense to use your phone rather than the wrist. It's a novelty to say the least
But, cool that we did it!
Can we have a tutorial please for the watch?
There is no tutorial necessary
Load ARC Mobile on your iOS device.
Load the robot project and connect to the robot.
Load ARC on the Apple Watch.
Use directional buttons on watch to make robot move. For example, the Right Arrow Button moves the robot RIGHT. The Left arrow button moves the robot Left. and so on..
Cheers DJ just got it working as you described I needed to add step 2) load the robot project
Awesome
Did you just get the watch? If so, it's not an actual stand-alone device. The apple watch is an extension to your iOS device. It's actually useless without being connected to a phone or tablet.
In this case, the apple watch is a movement controller for the ARC mobile app. Think of it as a remote control for the ARC mobile app.
The next version of the apple watch app will let you customize the buttons - much like how the current UI works.