"iOS and EV3 Hybrid Robot Programming Series II" 工欲善其事, its prerequisite (preparation)

in the previous article, we discussed the possibilities of robot development after the combination of iOS and EV3,So, do you want to get together and hacking?
in order to complete the project I am going to follow, we need to do the following:

1, a Mac running Mac OS X 10.9.3 or more operating systems.

2, Xcode6. This is the development tool for iOS on Mac. We'll use Xcode to write all the project programs.

3, one or two iOS devices, iphone or ipad are ok. In fact, it's best to have two iOS devices, because the last item in the iphone will be put together with the EV3 robot and be viewed and controlled with another iOS device.

4. Join the iOS Developer program (iOS Developer programs) to have a developer account, you can implement the real machine test! Otherwise, if it's just running on Mac's iphone simulator, we won't be able to use sensors like gyroscopes, cameras, etc. on the iphone's real machine! It is important to note that this developer program requires you to spend 99 U.S. knives, and the use of only one year!

5, one or two sets of EV3 robots. Again, it's best to have two sets so we can experiment with an iphone to connect and control two robots simultaneously!

6, NetGear WNA1100 WiFi Dongle only this type of network card can be adapted to EV3, all items in this book we will be through Wifi to achieve iOS and EV3 connection!

The above list is just hardware preparation. As you can see, it takes a lot of effort to play iOS and EV3 robots.

But not having these hardware, you can get started directly, we also need the following knowledge preparation:

1, to EV3 already have a certain understanding, can read and write its graphic language program and run on EV3.

2, the development of iOS have certain understanding, preferably have a certain programming foundation, familiar with Objective C and swift of course better!

3, have a certain understanding of robotics engineering. Of course, the ignorant also can be used!

Well, with these preparations, we can move on!