sfblackwell / trilobot

@pimoroni Trilobot robot powered by @raspberrypi

Simons @pimoroni @rapberrypi Trilobot robot

*** This is a work in progress, I am only just getting started ***

*** I am not a coder or programer, so please excuse the chaos ***

Sceenshots & pictures at bottom of this file, video in file list above

Loaded with:

• I2C PA1010D GPS Module
• I2C LSM303D accelerometer and compass
• I2C vl53l5cx 8*8 TOF ranger
• I2C 5*5 RGB LED Matrix Display
• I2C 11*7 LED Matrix Display
• I2C BME680 Enviromental Monitor
• Rear facing SN-04 ultrasonic ranger (moved from front) under development
• Front Facing 8mp Camera
• Servo with spining Santa

Using the following core software:

• Python 3
• Flask
• HTML5 + CSS
• Javascript
• MariaDB
• picamera2

Providing the following key functions:

• trilobot/trilobotWebApp/trilobotWebApp.py
  • Web based 'Point of View' driving using camera and on page controls
    • Python, Flask, HTML5+CSS, Javascript, MariaDb
• trilobot/trilobotMot.py
  • 8BitDo Zero Bluetooth Game Controller driving
    • Python
• trilobot/trilobotEnv.py
  • Enviromental and Posistional data collection and storage
    • Python, MariaDB
    • started at boot by cron
• trilobot/trilobotMJPEG-server.py
  • Camera Streaming for web based driving
    • picamera2
    • started at boot by cron

Key documentation,tutorials and related resources used

• Flask quickstart
• Flask / Jinja Templates
• Flask JavaScript, fetch, and JSON
• Matt Richardson's Serving Raspberry Pi with Flask
• json-validator
• HTML5 CSS Javascript Generators
• Map bluetooth controllers using python
• quackit.com css examples
• Raspberry Pi camera software
• Raspberry Pi camera examples
• quackit.com css examples
• Pimoroni Trilobot python library
  • Driver and Library information on the other @pimoroni items used can be found via the I2C module list
• Thanks to all the people who created blog posts and other helpfull information I browsed, to many to list