[quote=“lauren.a.mitchell”]Hello,
I am interested in syncing multiple sparki’s together and having them communicate among each other. For example, if one sparki detects an edge, it will be able to send a signal to the other sparki to not follow or to follow (depending on the signal) Does anyone have any suggestions of how this could be done ?
Any ideas are much appreciated!
Thank you[/quote]
It’s a challenging problem. If you had the Sparki’s “facing” one another, they can communicate using the IR emitter / receiver and the sendIR() / readIR() commands. That will only work if the fronts of the robots are more or less facing one another.
If you’ve got a way to connect your sparkis to a computer, you could communicate between and among those computers over a network. I wrote a library to do that with Python and a program running on Sparki, which you can see in another thread.
Someone on here has commented about putting a camera on Sparki. If you could mount a camera, you could do some image recognition (e.g. mark the sparkis with different colors and try to recognize the colors).
Good luck and hopefully somebody else has some more ideas!