Arnold

RPi 4 Based Robotic Platform

Setup

• Distro download: https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-32-bit
• Remote Access: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/
• Headless Wifi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/headless.md
• Configure sound: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md

System Requirements

• Raspberry Pi OS Lite (Preferrable but not essential)
• Git
• Python 3.7+
• Python Virtualenv

Build Requirements

• portaudio19-dev
• python3-dev
• flac
• libespeak1
• espeak
• ffmpeg
• python3-opencv

Run the following command to install

make install

Development

# Clone arnold locally
git clone git@github.com:hacklabza/arnold.git
cd arnold/

# Setup the virtualenv and install the python deps
make venv
make deps

# Run unittest
make test

Installation

# Get the RPi's IP address
ping raspberrypi.local

# Access to the commandline over SSH
ssh pi@192.168.1.115

# Clone and install arnold
git clone git@github.com:hacklabza/arnold.git
cd arnold/
sudo make install

# Run the unittests to make sure arnold is installed correctly
make test

Running arnold

# Initialise and run the internal API server
arnold run

Open your browser to http://192.168.1.115:8000 to control arnold.