A super simple interface to "program" a Raspberry Pi Zero powered stupid instruction following robot. This is a private project with the aim to have a good mix of software and hardware to teach my 3 year old niece about computer science. The idea is that she'll at first use it to give the robot instructions to circumvent obstacles.
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For this to work you need a robot powered by a Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Zero W is just fine). The robot interface is currently mocked, but can seemlessly be exchanged by the Raspberry Pi GPIO Robot interface to go forward, turn into a direction (left, right) and go backward.
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If you have older kids, you can use these instructions to build the robot yourself: Robot Buggy Instructions
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Start serving the interface and the robot instruction follower on
python app.py. -
Optional: Add the command above to your Raspberry Pi's rc.local file so the application starts up automatically, once you power up the Raspberry Pi.
- Open
http://<your-raspberry-pi-ip-address>:3000/static/index.htmlin browser
- Drag and drop instructions into the instructions box.
- Press the robot button and confirm with
okto send commands to robot, which will start executing the programmed driving sequence immediately. - The cat command will cause the robot to run commands that are in the board below the cat symbol.
- You can think of the cat board as a kind of subroutine.
- Note: Putting a cat onto the cat board will cause an infinity loop