Simple robot controller framework for Raspberry Pi based robots
Base dependancies include python3 and the requests library.
For the keyboard "virtual controller" python3-keyboard is required.
For camera support, python3-opencv is required.
For robots, the default control scheme assumes use of the Raspberry Pi's GPIO module.
This is an example of how to connect our favourite robot (Sherbert Lemon) to a laptop running both a server and a virtual controller. You can tweak the sherbert_lemon.json config file for your own robots.
On the laptop:
./botd_server.py
...and in a seperate window after...
./botd_client.py --remote 127.0.0.1:8080 virtual_controller.json --port 8082
NOTE: --port is only required when running both a client and server on the same machine! 8080 is the default port for both. This behaviour may change in future releases.
On the robot:
./botd_client.py --remote 192.168.1.88:8080 sherbert_lemon.json
NOTE: 192.168.1.88 should be replaced with the appropriate IP address of the botd server. 8080 is the default server port, but you may choose to change it using both the --port <port> directive and this :<port> on every client.