[crgfrench]

I went a little further and installed a VNC server on the Pi and a VNC client on my iPhone, now we have an autonomous EggBot which needs no external computer, keyboard, mouse or monitor — it is all controlled wirelessly from iPad or iPhone.  Please see the video at http://www.instructables.com/id/iPad-controlled-Raspberry-Pi-powering-an-EggBot/ .  

Here is the sequence (I posted this on the Raspberry Pi Forum at http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=39306&p=323184&hilit=eggbot#p323184): 

1) On the Pi terminal, run:
sudo apt-get install inkscape

2) Browse to the Evil Mad Science Labs EggBot wiki page and download the Linux Eggbot extensions and examples.

3) In terminal, run:
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

4) Follow the directions at http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/tightvnc to add the VNC server to the startup of the Pi.

5) Install the free app “Mocha VNC Lite” on your iPad or iPhone. Now run the EggBot from your iPad/iPhone.

[crgfrench]

Thanks Windell — we love our EMSL EggBot!  Thanks for mentioning the fiberglass dust when drilling — we noticed that.  The kit is great and your documentation and support are fantastic.  The way I think of our EggBot now is a dual-board robot.  With the Pi installed on the tailstock the Eggbot has one board (the EiBot Board) that controls the motors and another board (the Pi) that runs Inkscape & the EggBot extensions, and also allows the user to connect keyboard, mouse and monitor to the EggBot itself.  The boards talk to each other over a short onboard USB wire.  Funny enough, the onboard Pi computer, at $35, is even less expensive than the EiBot motor controller board.  I think of both boards as “internal” since they are mounted to the chassis in the same way.  By the way our method uses the RCA video out on the Pi; if one wanted to use HDMI instead just flip the pi over and drill tailstock holes in the appropriate places (with the SD card facing the rear of the chassis).  Mounting a Pi on the tailstock only allows one video out port (RCA or HDMI) to be feasibly used since the other will be facing the ground without clearance for a plug.

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