ariel

Avatar Robot for Imaging and Electronic Liaison

Dependencies

socket.io

Handles real time communication between the client and robot, or client <-> cloud server <-> robot

talky.io

RTC helpers to for peer to peer video and chat

hapi.js

Server framework. Currently we are just using it for routing http requests

johnny-five

The Javascript-Robotics programming framework

keypress.js

Handles keypress events on the client

virtualjoystick.js

Virtual joystick for user page

Learning Resources

Fundamentals

• nodeschool.io is a pretty amazing (and fun!) way to learn about many of these topics. These are "choose-your-own-adventure" style workshops that let you build and check solutions to common problems.
• JavaScript for Cats is a fun introduction to programming with JavaScript as a first language.
• nodeschool.io is a pretty amazing (and fun!) way to learn about node.js. These are "choose-your-own-adventure" style workshops that let you build and check solutions for common tasks.

Miscellaneous How-To's

Launching the Bot Control Program

• Power up the tablet and log in
  • User: Donovan
  • Password: ariel
• Open the Git Shell application (there is an icon on the desktop)
• Navigate to C:\Users\donovan\Documents\ariel
• run node index
• Hide Git Shell but be sure to leave it and node running in the background
• Launch chrome (there is an icon on the desktop)

Updating The Code on the Tablet

We are using a code repository on github to manage contributions and changes and we have the git client installed on the tablet. This makes updates super easy. One note: Be patient, this tablet is super slow so opening apps takes a long time.

• Open the Git Shell application (there is an icon on the desktop)
• Navigate to C:\Users\donovan\Documents\ariel
• run git pull

Tips for the client side code