Spark Core iOS library

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My daughter and I have been building robots with the BeagleBone Black and very recently I stumbled on the Spark Core. I really liked the Spark’s built in Wi-Fi and thought that my first project would be to use the Spark Core as a communication module for our robot. We really wanted to control the robot with our iPhone/iPad/iPods but I did not see any iOS libraries for the Spark so I wrote one.

You can read about the library on my blog: http://myroboticadventure.blogspot.com/2014/07/spark-core-ios-library.html

You can download the library from my GitHub account: https://github.com/hoffmanjon/SparkCoreIOS

I am pretty new to the Spark Core so if anyone has any suggestions/comments/recommendations, please share. I hope this library is useful to someone else besides me.

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Is this useful?

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Yes I have taken a look at the Spark iOS app but I wanted something simple and easy to use that focused on the communication between the app and Spark’s Web API. It seemed that the iOS app has a lot of extras that were not needed for quick prototyping and hobbyists. I do believe that the Spark iOS app can be greatly simplified to make it an easier to use as a template but I wanted something that was even easier than that for my robot since I already had my Spark Core set up. Hopefully this will help out others, maybe it is too simplified but it is what I needed.

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Simple is good! I may have to tinker with this a bit in the future.

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Thanks for sharing @hoffmanjon, very cool! :slight_smile: