/dice_arduino

servo motor through arduino based on input of dice web app

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Make Arduino Dice Robot

Arduino controlling servo motor with dice animating web app

What you need in things

  1. Arduino inventor kit (available in Amazon, Sparkfun)
  • Arduino Uno
  • Servo motor
  • Small jumper cable
  • Breadboard

  1. Cardboard, Stick for arm

  2. Computer to run a webserver

What you need in software

  1. virtualenv for Python environment setup
  2. Code from this repo

Servo Setup

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sik-experiment-guide-for-arduino---v32/experiment-8-driving-a-servo-motor

Install and Run

  1. Create a virtualenv (For more info, go to http://virtualenv.org)
  2. In the newly created virtualenv env (meaning after source $env_folder$/bin/activate), git clone https://github.com/imju/dice_arduino.git
  3. Run 'pip install requirements.txt' to install Flask and PySerial
  4. Open Arduino editor for arduino/servo.ino and upload to arduino (Note down the port!)
  5. Update port information in move.py in the following line with your port
  • ser = serial.Serial('/dev/cu.usbmodem1421', 9600, timeout=5)
  1. Run 'python hello.py'
  2. Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000
  3. Have fun! ( Currently supports single dice up to 6 digits)

Demo at https://youtu.be/zqtqyddbNbw

Credit: Dice program is from Anton Natarov for details http://www.teall.info/2014/01/online-3d-dice-roller.html