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I love building and programming mobile robots and because of my love of mobile robots, mobile phones/tablets and the Arduino, I combined them to make a prototype called the "RK-1".

THE IDEA

The RK-1 is a fun mobile robot, that uses an ad hoc wifi connection, which is controlled using your iOS or Android device.

The control board on the robot is built on the Arduino hardware/software architecture, which is open source, and the controller software and hardware will also be available open source. The idea is to give the community the ability to make Arduino projects mobile. There is no end to what you can do- you can add sensors and actuators to this fun little device and control it remotely.

I have implemented a new and amazing way of controlling the robot using swipe gestures.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP

I want to share my love of mobile robots with the community. So, I need your help, please fund me so I can develop a better control board, better robot chassis, and make some awesome software for iOS and Android devices.

I need funds to prototype different ideas and to buy better engineering equipment, which will help me build an affordable, awesome mobile robot platform with super awesome software!

Please support the project on kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mymobilerobots/rk-1-a-wifi-arduino-mobile-robot-for-ios-and-andro

Website:

http://mymobilerobots.com/rk1/