For a couple of years now I have been hooked on this stupid little mobile game called Motor World: Car Factory. It’s repetitive, mundane and addictive.

While doing missions, you end up with this repetitive task of building the same car over and over again. But you have to do it, to get resources to capture new workers/characters and get further in the game.

I got the idea that I should use OpenCV on Raspberry Pie and a XY-arm with a capacitive stylus to play the boring sections of the game for me. A totally useless project, but I get to know Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, RPi cam, 3D-printing and OpenCV better.

 

To do:

• Build a functioning XY-arm called YXiPad.
• Build a stylus pen holder with  a push pull type open frame solenoid.
• Mount and program end-stops to limit working area, and prevent stepper motor burnout.
• Move stepper motors (A4988) controlled by an Arduino board (Rumba)
• Program X/Y-direction movement independently
• Program X/Y-direction movement by distance input.
• Detect all needed objects in game with with Raspberry Pi+cam and OpenCV.
• Decide coordinates of objects.
• Send coordiates from RPi to Arduino Rumba board with some kind of communication protocoll.
• Create game playing logic loop

Equipment:

• Ipad Mini
• Raspberry Pi 2
• Raspberry Pi – 7″ touch screen
• Raspberry Pi Camera Board
• Capacitive Stylus