Robot Control

What is it?

This project is a robot control client/server application mainly for Raspberry Pi with Raspbian, that you can test also on PC/Mac

Sources of client web application can be found here

Under the hood

This project is build on top of NodeJS, React, MobX, Socket.IO

Status of project

Early alpha version (usable but hard to install and configure)

Sources and issue tracking

Going to be published on GitHub soon

Where can I find some support?

Meet me at Slack channel in day hours (central european time).

Installation

Prerequisities

1. Install Raspbian
2. on PI 2 or 3 install NodeJS 8 or on PI 1 uninstall NodeJS and install new NodeJS (replace node-v6.2.1-linux-armv6l.tar.gz with some 8 version from https://nodejs.org/dist)
3. Install Pi Blaster from sources that you clone to some directory:

git clone https://github.com/sarfata/pi-blaster

Install and run main package

sudo npm install -g robot-control
robot-control

Open the application on port 3100 in state of art browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) (use Chrome on Android device)

Testing on PC and Mac

1. Install NodeJS for your OS from NodeJS
2. Install main package from command line

npm install -g robot-control

or

sudo npm install -g robot-control

3. Run main package

robot-control

4. Open the application on port 3100 in state of art browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) (use Chrome on Android device)

Future work

Documentation for UI and UI programming

Without documentation nobody is able to create his own UI :(

Support for customization of UI

Custom backgrounds, more controls like buttons, sliders etc.

Support for I2C

In near future (few weeks) this project should start to support I2C bus and Adafruit PWM Board that you can buy for few dollars on Aliexpress o eBay.

Support for Arduino

Docker images