-
This evening I made my first Perl GUI application. The last few
-days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
-aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
-that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
-It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
-allow me to drive the robot around. I picked PerlQt as I have had
-positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
-browsing the web for examples. Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
-cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
-compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
-libqt-perl. Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
-drive around.
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The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
-controlling the robot. Here is an small example on how to use it:
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-use Spykee;
-Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
-my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
-my $spykee = Spykee->new();
-$spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
-$spykee->left();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->right();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->forward();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->back();
-sleep 2;
-$spykee->stop();
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-
Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
-peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
-implement the protocol used by the robot. I've implemented several of
-the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
-support to make it possible to control the robot from remote. First I
-want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
-the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
-without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
-so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
-going. :).
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-
Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
-where to make it available first. I will add a link to
-the NUUG wiki for
-those that want to check back later to find it.
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