ARPi-Robotics

ARPi-Robotics itself is a ready-to-use micro-framework based on Python, C++, JavaScript and HTML5.
It provides several robot models based on the Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

Features

• Communication over Wifi
• A user friendly and beautiful web-interface - no app is needed!
• Video streaming in real time (up to 1080p@30fps - yes, its full hd!)
• Based on arch linux - no limits

Supported robot models

• ARPi-Rover

How to install

Step 1: Checkout the project locally

git clone https://github.com/arpi-robotics/arpi-robotics.git

Step 2: Get your Arduino ready

The setup of the arduino is model specific, so take a look under the docs folder.

• Arduino setup for ARPi-Rover

Then open the arduino/<model type>/<model type>.ino in your Arduino IDE and upload it to your Arduino.

The Arduino is now ready.

Step 3: Checkout the project remotely on your raspberry pi

ssh to your raspi and then:

sudo aptitude install python-virtualenv python-dev
git clone https://github.com/arpi-robotics/arpi-robotics.git
cd arpi-robotics/
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
./venv/bin/python runserver.py

Open this in browser:

http://<ip-of-your-raspi>:5000/

Contribute

TODOs / Planned Features

• lag free video streaming to the browser (for now we are using netcat, tried vlc, ffmpeg, gstreamer and mjpeg-stream - all with lags >2s)
• run with the fast python interpreter "pypy" (gevent is here the problem)
• implement json rpc over websockets to be able to call functions remotely in javascript (https://github.com/brainrape/jsonrpcws)
• handle wifi connections directly in python
• create a basis to work with opencv