Force Band support?

[jeffyjeffy1023]

Hey, I know it's a bit forgotten but nowadays the Force Bands (which can be used to drive sphero's LE robots like Ollie of BB-8 & Co, and even Mini, with just motion control) are pretty cheap now and I'd like to see at least SOME hacking effort for it seeing how it has a speaker, LED, and could work as a very interesting method of input or maybe even body tracking for, say, VR, by putting two on each leg maybe.

EDIT: I realize the EDU app doesn't support it, but still, maybe by revenging the force band app itself we could figure it out? Plus considering how it can connect to every bot but 1.0/2.0/SPRK and (probably?) RVR, I doubt its protocol is THAT different from the bots themselves.

[superfashi]

Maybe, if I can get my hands on one.

This honestly might be a project of itself.

[jeffyjeffy1023]

If you go on amazon or hell, even ebay, they're about $10-$20 on average, which to me is kinda funny considering how the original MSRP was like $80. Maybe if you do ever hack it (it'd be nice to get control over the speaker and the 3 LEDs in there, though they just act as one in there) we could get it to work with other non-sphero robots, either on its own or via a bridge. Either way some way of getting more use outta the thing would be great.

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[jeffyjeffy1023]

Oh, and one more thing: You'll need the app to set it up unfortunately, but considerinf how you'd need it anyway to reverse engineer it, that doesn't seem like too much of an issue. If you need the APK or OBB, just lemme know. Maybe if we reverse engineer it enough to get a python lib working, maybe we could set them up without the need for the app..

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