🎮 Blazor MAUI Robotics IoT Cross-Platform Dashboard

💭 About

This is a MAUI - Blazor WebAssembly dashboard project and allows the user to remotely control a robot through:

• A desktop app [MacOS]
• A mobile app [Android]

🎞️ Demo

Controlling the rover from a Desktop app

Controlling the rover from a Mobile app

Features to be added in future release

N/A

🛠️ Tech Stack

Technology	Remarks
Blazor MAUI	A cross-platform framework to build the desktop and mobile app
RaspberryPi	Server to host the Web and to host the Azure DevOps agent for CICD
Pi-Top Robotics Kit	Hardware to maneuver the robot by Pi-Top - Pi-Top OS is used to integrate with the peripherals

🎆 Installation

Hardware

The following hardware is required prior to installing the software

1. RaspberryPi 4B+
2. Pi-Top Robotics Kit

Software

1. Run the following to install Dotnet MAUI: dotnet workload install maui and dotnet tool install -g redth.net.maui.check
2. Run the following docker command to run in a MacOS app: dotnet build -t:Run -f net7.0-maccatalyst
3. Run the following command to run in an Android app:
   • open Visual Studio
   • navigate to Tools > Device Manager
   • start Pixel a5 simulator
   • dotnet build -t:Run -f net7.0-android

💻 Code Structure

Platforms

Robot Control Panel - Component to manoeuvre the robot

Libraries

1. Radzen Blazor library

🚀 CICD

N/A

🛰️ Connectivity

To connect to the dashboard, ensure the client device and the RaspberryPi are within the same wi-fi network. Open the app on your device upon running the dotnet build command as shown above