/houston

Base station program

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

houston

This is the base station program to control the rover.

Written and tested in Python 3.8 but will probably work in any 3.x version

Setup

Install Python

Mac/Windows

  • Go to https://www.python.org/
  • Download Python 3.x for your platform (make sure it's the 64 bit version if on Windows)
  • When installing, check boxes to 'add pip to PATH', 'associate file types', 'precompile std lib', etc.

Linux

  • Using your distro's package manager, install

      python3
  python3-pip

Install modules

  • Open Terminal (Mac/linux) or Powershell (Windows)

  • Run the following command (on Linux, replace 'pip' with 'pip3')

      pip install inputs

Running

  • Boot up the rover and connect to the network via Wifi or ethernet

Windows

  • Go to folder containing houston.py
  • Double click on houston.py

Mac/Linux

  • Open a Terminal application

  • Run the command (on Linux, replace 'python' with 'python3')

    python path/to/houston.py

Usage

The program will provide an interactive text menu. Type the desired option from the list and press enter to execute the command.

Autonomous mode:

  • Launch houston.py
  • Execute a runfile using the menu

Manual mode:

  • Connect an Xbox compatible controller to you computer via USB before launching houston
  • Launch houston.py
  • Enter manual mode using the menu
Xbox controller button Rover action (Advanced mode) Rover action (Easy mode) Coming soontm
Start Change to Easy mode Change to Advanced mode
Select Exit to menu Exit to menu
A Advance Auger Unbound
B Raise Depositor Unbound
X Lower Depositor Unbound
Y Retract Auger Unbound
RT Rotate auger forwards Unbound
LT Rotate auger backwards Unbound
RB Tilt auger down Unbound
LB Tilt auger up Unbound
LS Move rover Unbound
RS Unbound Unbound
Dpad-N Unbound Unbound
Dpad-S Unbound Unbound
Dpad-E Unbound Unbound
Dpad-W Unbound Unbound