The AirFishBowl is a remote controllable / autonomous helium air blimp in the shape of a fish. It is powered using an OpenPicus Flyport microcontroller and has a beautifully designed interface which is served from a Raspberry Pi. The system has a simple HTTP REST API for which we have multiple implemented controllers such as the Javascript autonomous Alive system, the Kinect controller, directly from the HTTP interface and even iOS app. The system is a collaborative project between multiple undergraduate degrees in the schools of Engineering and Science at the Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.
The AirFishBowl project repository contains the following directories:
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├── AirFishBowl-iOS
├── AirFishBowl-REST-API-Mock
├── AirFishBowl
├── Branding
├── Kinect
└── RPi_WebServer
- AirFishBowl-iOS native iOS application remote control for the AirFishBowl
- AirFishBowl-REST-API-Mock Contains a mock for the AirFishBowl REST API which can be used to test interfaces for the system
- AirFishBowl Contains the OpenPicus Project for the AirFishBowl Fish
- Branding Contains the Branding assets used by the AirFishBowl project
- Kinect Contains the C# Microsoft Kinect application for interacting with the AirFishBowl REST API
- RPi_Webserver Contains the Django WebApp which can be run on the Raspberry Pi and acts as a front end for the AirFishBowl system