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