Hello Guys.
For our studies in mechanical engineering our group has to design, programm and build a sorting Robot with the Lego Mindstorms EV3 - Kit.
So far so good.
A few days ago i stumbled over thingworx studio and the app thingworx view. Created my first AR - Experiences with it and came to the conclusion, that i want our Robot to be capable of IoT and to have an AR - Experience, which displays some Information from the Robot. Such as the colour it is scanning and sorting momentary for example.
And here comes the reason why I opened this thread.
Our group has like zero experience with programming at all. We just had some lectures of C++ and ended them with creating arrays and how to save Output-Data in a Word document.
And the questions I am having right now are the following ones:
-Does anybody has experiences with implementing an Lego Robot (EV3) into thingworx?
-Which programming languages would be suitable for the solution? (We are currently using RobotC for our Robot, which may cause some trouble because it is not really C)
-How does the creation of an IoT solution actually work? (I am imagining a process that looks like the following: Robot gives Output to a PC which has thingworx installed onto it, in thingworx I create a Thing which is filled with data from the Robot, in thingworx studios I place a 3D-Label which is fed by the thing.)
-How do I import data into the thingworx platform? (I sadly have not found a suiting tutorial yet)
-Is it possible to also "reverse" the data flow, so that it would be possible to manipulate for example speed of the robot through the thingworx view app?
I would like to use this discussion for me to ask constantly new questions because we will surely get a lot of problems till we have a running solution.
In the end we will probably have a nice guide for newbies with Lego to get their own IoT application up and running.
Best regards and many thanks in advance
Lars Peuckmann.
