I built a robot to cheat at Pokémon!!

Sophie Déziel

Rails dev @ Acquisio

Twitch Streamer

@sophiedeziel

Guiz de Pessemier

Co-founder of Outerminds

Youtuber

Twitch Streamer

@jeuserieux

Automation to the rescue!!

Two challenges

  • Controlling the game
     
  • Have input to make decisions

Servo-motors

  • Cheap
     
  • Easy to find
     
  • You can position the arm precisely
     
  • Easy to control
     
  • Does not require to destroy a controller
     
  • Slow

Webcam

  • Easy to position close to the screen
     
  • Lots of Open-Source Software to control them
     
  • Plug and Play (most of the time)
     
  • We can use a single pixel to make a decision

We can go forward

Make it autonomous and easy to share with Raspberry Pi

 

We need to make it:

  • Reliable
  • Precise
  • Configurable

Make it reliable

  • Unsupervised
     
  • Perfect timing
     
  • Must not move

Arduino

"Computer vision"

  • Easy to setup
     
  • Not so hard to code

Having an interface

  • Control remotely
     
  • Edit settings easily
     
  • Visualise the webcam

Putting it all together

The working prototype!

Ooops!

Unplanned features

  • Controls improvements
     
  • Easy updates
     
  • Two people working on the same robot
     
  • Communication features (SMS and Tweets)

And now?

Want to build it?

So cool!

github.com/sophiedeziel/robo-catcher

You can modify it:

  • Add Lights and lasers
     
  • Remove the Arduino and use the RP GPIO
     
  • Improve the interface
     
  • Adapt the codebase for another game

OS Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi
     
  • Arduino

OSS

  • Raspbian
  • Motion
  • Firmata
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • RMagick
  • Nginx

Thank you so much

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