AstralPi

This is the first version of a Raspberry Pi based remote viewing project, AstralPi, combining the Raspberry Pi, a Pimoroni PanTilt camera and an Oculus Rift.

"The Plan" is to mount to it on the robot I will be showing at PiWars 2017.

To obtain the Rift HMD sensor data AstralPi uses a Python wrapper for the OpenHMD library that I created as part of VRZero - Virtual Reality on the Pi, in Python.

The AstralPi setup in action:

The ultimate goal is to create a stereoscopic, and wireless version, using a Raspberry Pi Compute Model 3 fitted with 2 Cameras and an HDMI video sender.

The final setup will require an additional Pi to connect the Rift to the USB and then transmit the rotational data, probably va BluetoothLE, to the CM3 module with the PanTilt camera attached (on the robot).

The ground work for the 'final version' has begun, 'screenshot' below:

Version 1.5, a blend of 1.0 and 2.0:

Added wide angle lenses:

Completed Robot for PiWars!