AlbertCX

Hi all, Probably most of you already know this but our little R.O.B. goggles sides project got some attention, it was picked up by Gizmodo and Hackaday. Because of that we were contacted by some R.O.B. owners that wanted to try the goggles, so we built a little batch for them. It will likely be a one time thing since it is a labor of love, we put up a Tindie listing to give a chance to reserve the goggles to the most enthusiast folks, the price is really symbolic and will help covering the cost of parts, we plan to make only 20 goggles available and after one day or so I think there are only 2 or 3 left by now. We're building these through the holidays and you can follow us on twitter @croxel for updates, we will start shipping Jan 6th. Here's the R.O.B. Goggles Tindie page https://www.tindie.com/products/18935/ Happy holidays!

Hi all, Here's a shorter video version of R.O.B. googles in action, and a shout out to the AtariAge forum people ? https://twitter.com/croxel/status/1195038514792062976?s=20

Thanks!

Hi everyone, so we finally have a video to show you a full working set of ROB goggles prototype , take a look and let us know what you guys think. ?

We're way ahead of you on that one my friend! (you just spoiled the big "one more thing")

We haven't really made commercial plans for this, we will assemble a few engineering prototypes though that I guess if someone wants it we could put it on ebay or something similar. We can make an Android app.... but I'm not sure we can redirect development efforts right now, but again if there's enough demand from the community we're up for anything.

Yes, the goggles emit the flashed/code to ROB (left eye) and they connect Bluetooth to the iPad/iPhone, as of now there's only a screen controller, not a game. To play games you control ROB with the app not the physical NES controller. Like I mentioned above additional hardware would be required to take it to the next level, for instance an inlined device plugged in the NES controller port to "capture" the commands and then send them back to the goggles is very much possible.

Yes, that is exactly what we have in mind. To really make ROB useful a game has to keep the player busy while ROB does its thing, for example work cooperatively to solve a problem, the player programs ROB to solve a puzzle and/or send commands on the fly while he or she solves other segment, if they both do it in time correctly then they can move on to the next level. To your points: 1) "It doesn't have a large array of movements", true but we can take advantage of that by challenging the player to command ROB to solve a puzzle with constraints and limitations, kind of what Stack Up did with blocks. 2) "it's quite slow" Like you mentioned, we can take the time to have the player busy with a task that is challenging enough where is not boringly easy to complete but not super difficult to the point of frustration. With these goggles and app we break free of CRT TV dependence but to make all of the above possible there would need to be additional addons for ROB, plus develop the game. We're a small team of hardware and software developers doing this as a labor of love, we'd love to take it to the next level but it will depend if there's enough interest in the community. The new goggles have the electronics and optics required to send commands to ROB in the same way an old CRT TV did, they connect to the app where there's a screen controller to make it move up, down, right and left plus open/close its arms. With this you can play the original games right off the bat with no modifications to ROB (something I think we can all appreciate since ROB is now an expensive collector's piece), also no need to hack game code and it works on any modern TV. We have it working now but we're assembling the final version, I'll post a video soon in the meantime here's a shot of ROB wearing the new goggles:

Hey everyone, we design and make stuff and we are retrogamers above all, thanks to your posts cracking R.O.B. commands codes and also what the guys at Adafruit did, we can now control R.O.B. without mods so he can play his great games (all two of them) in any modern TV, we gave him a new pair of goggles and a little app, we’re doing final tests and everything looks good so far