A command line interface for the Kilobots
/* By BC van Zuiden -- Leiden, September 2014 */
/* Probably very buggy USE AT OWN RISK this will brick everything you own */
/* NOBODY but YOU is liable for anything that happened in result of using this */
/* WARNING: DON'T RUN THIS PROGRAM THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER AND/OR KILOBOTS */
/* Based (loosly) on kilogui by Alex Cornejo https://github.com/acornejo/kilogui */
This program acknowledges:
This program requires libftdi (libftdi-devel,libftdi-c++-devel in Fedora 20). To build run something like:
make
To clean run:
make clean
You can install by copying the compiled binary to your path.
Make sure you have followed the instructions at kilobotics
After compilation run something like:
./kilocmd --help
Which produces something like this:
kilocmd: WILL DESTROY YOUR COMPUTER AND/OR KILOBOTS!
kilocmd: USE AT OWN RISK!
usage: kilocmd [options] "filename"
if no filename is provided stdin is used (use ^D to exit)
options:
-s or --stfu startup in silent mode
-d or --disc startup without connecting
-h or --help produce this output
commands:
VOLTAGE display voltage level using LED (blue/green=fully charged,yellow/red=need battery)
CHARGE switch to charge mode
PAUSE pause the user program
RUN runs the currently uploaded program
RESET jump to the user program starting point
SLEEP switch to low-power sleep mode
TOGGLE toggle LEDs on controller
STOP sends an empty message
BOOTLOAD jump to bootloader mode to accept a new program
UPLOAD filename upload a new program to kilobots that are in bootloader mode
STFU toggle silent mode
HANG time stall for a bunch of miliseconds
HELP show this output
CONNECT connect to the overhead controller
DISCONNECT disconnect from the overhead controller
lines starting with a # are ignored
When you are done reading:
./kilocmd
Should get you started.
If you are lazy try:
rlwrap ./kilocmd
Or even more conviently:
rlwrap -c ./kilocmd