Smart-Walker

Smart Walker is a kivy based project which aims to design user friendly and smart interface for walkers.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Use this link to install the latest version of kivy on raspberry pi or follow these commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev \
pkg-config libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev \
python-setuptools libgstreamer1.0-dev git-core \
gstreamer1.0-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly} \
gstreamer1.0-{omx,alsa} python-dev libmtdev-dev Xclip

Then install Cython and Kivy

sudo pip install -U Cython==0.27.3

sudo pip install git+https://github.com/kivy/kivy.git@master

Install BNO055 Absolute Orientation Sensor with Raspberry Pi & BeagleBone Black follow the instructions in here

Install GPIO following the instructions here

These next instructions are used from here

sudo raspi-config

and in one of the menus choose "Serial" (Enable/Disable shell and kernel messages on the serial connection) and disable it.

reboot

edit /boot/config.txt and add the line (at the bottom):

enable_uart=1

Reboot!

Installing

git clone https://github.com/sharare90/Smart-Walker.git

Running

cd Smart-Walker python UserInterface.py