toio-osc

Tools to connect to toio cubes and control them over OSC

Why?

The idea is that managing Bluetooth Low Energy connections is hard and painful, but very important to play with toio cubes. What if there were a way to abstract everything and use a common OSC API to communicate with the cubes? That's what this project is trying to do.

How?

• Install rust
• run cargo run --release to compile and run the application

What is happening?

The application with listen to BTLE events and connects to any toio cube it sees. Right now it also subscribes to the position ID characteristic and button characteristic. It will then forward all notifications as OSC packet to the server specified in the code (right now, localhost:3333). The application will also open a server on port 3334 to listen to OSC messages to then forward to the cubes. Right now only the motor message is implemented and allows you to control the cubes around.

Related projects

See the nannou example here or the processing example here for examples on how to use this application.

Caveats

If you are running Big Sur, you must authorize the terminal application to use Bluetooth. This has been tested on Mac OS Catalina and Windows 10. More to come soon!