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20 <p>Entries from September
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25 <a href=
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33 <p>This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few
34 days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
35 aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
36 that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
37 It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
38 allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had
39 positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
40 browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
41 cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
42 compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
43 libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
46 <p>The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
47 controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:
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51 Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[
0]} = $_[
1]});
52 my $host = (keys %robot)[
0];
53 my $spykee = Spykee-
>new();
54 $spykee-
>contact($host, "admin", "admin");
66 <p>Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
67 peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
68 implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of
69 the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
70 support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I
71 want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
72 the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
73 without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
74 so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
77 <p>Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
78 where to make it available first. I will add a link to
79 <a href=
"http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">the NUUG wiki
</a> for
80 those that want to check back later to find it.
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87 Tags:
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