Here you will learn how to create an internet controlled robot or other installation using Livebots.
Livebots is a project I’m working on which consists of an easy to use website for all the robots that people can interact with through the internet.
As an example I will be using a simple Arduino UNO with a LED connected to an Raspberry Pi to show you the concept, but of course you can use anything that can be receive messages by the serial port and any computer you would like.
Here is it:
And here is another example:
Step 1: Program the arduino
Attached is a simple arduino program that reads the messages form the serial port and lights the LED when they contain “HIGH” and turns it off when “LOW”.
Feel free to adapt it to your own needs.
livebotDemo.zip462 bytes
Step 2: Add the robot to the Livebots website
Start by creating an account (http://livebots.cc/Account/Register).
Click Add a Robot and upload your bot’s picture (http://livebots.cc/Upload/1).
Then you can add your robot information that will appear on the robot’s page.
Step 3: Install PySerial
1. Download and click open: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/
2. Unzip and untar the files
3. Install pySerial. On a terminal window, navigate to the folder where you have the files and run the following command:
cd pyserial-2.5
sudo python setup.py install
For more info on how to do this on raspberry pi go here:
http://www.doctormonk.com/2012/04/raspberry-pi-and-arduino.html
PS: If you’re on Windows make sure you have python installed: http://www.python.org/getit/windows/ (Thanks msandersmay10 for pointing this out!)
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