bodiddles / daemon

Daemon is a cross-platform frontend for the Pioneers in Engineering robotics control system. It's also the future.

Overview

NOTE: This readme is a brief overview. For more in-depth docs on any specific component, refer to the wiki.

This repo currently contains Dawn and Runtime in the dawn/ and runtime/ folders, respectively.

Dawn

Dawn is a cross-platform frontend for the PiE robotics control system. It's also the future a dish soap. It is the applications students will see and use when programming and testing their robots.

Dawn is a desktop application, but it is written using web technologies (primarily ReactJS). This is made possible by a technology called Electron.

Quickstart

1. Install Required Software:

   • Get NodeJS or (if you already have it) make sure to update to v5.0.0 (download from the NodeJS website)
   • Get electron: npm install -g electron-prebuilt
   • Get electron-packager: npm install -g electron-packager

2. Get code and dependencies

   • Pull the latest code from pioneers/develop.
   • Enter the dawn directory: cd dawn.
   • Install dependencies with npm: npm install. Remember to do this step whenever the dependencies change.

3. Start developing:

   • Launch the application: npm start. Leave this terminal window running. Dawn should open.
   • To see the effects of changes you make, just hit refresh: CMD-R (Mac) or CTRL-R (Windows).

4. Package app:

   • Packaging Dawn is done with electron-packager. Run the following from the dawn folder:

   electron-packager . dawn --platform=darwin --arch=x64 --version=0.36.2
   

   Here --platform is the target platform (darwin means OSX) and --version corresponds to the Electron version.

Runtime

Runtime (formerly griff) is a python based platform for executing student code and controlling the robot hardware.

Quickstart

From the 'runtime' directory, run:

1. Install memcached
2. Use pip to install flask, eventlet, flask-socketio, and python-memcached
3. python runtime.py
4. memcached -p 12357 (from another terminal window)

Structure Diagram: