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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</div>
24 <div class="date"> 1st September 2010</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few
26 days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
27 aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
28 that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
29 It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
30 allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had
31 positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
32 browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
33 cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
34 compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
35 libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
36 drive around.</p>
37
38 <p>The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
39 controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:</p>
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41 <p><pre>
42 use Spykee;
43 Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
44 my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
45 my $spykee = Spykee->new();
46 $spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
47 $spykee->left();
48 sleep 2;
49 $spykee->right();
50 sleep 2;
51 $spykee->forward();
52 sleep 2;
53 $spykee->back();
54 sleep 2;
55 $spykee->stop();
56 </pre></p>
57
58 <p>Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
59 peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
60 implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of
61 the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
62 support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I
63 want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
64 the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
65 without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
66 so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
67 going. :).</p>
68
69 <p>Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
70 where to make it available first. I will add a link to
71 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">the NUUG wiki</a> for
72 those that want to check back later to find it.</p>
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