Robot

This is the userspace API for the robot, which is what students will interface with to program their robots.

Installation instructions

Building the debian package

# Install build tools:
sudo apt install build-essential devscripts debhelper equivs

# cd to the root of this project
cd path/to/robot-api

# Install dependencies
sudo mk-build-deps -ir

# Build the package:
debuild -uc -us

Installing the debian package

After building, the .deb file should appear in the parent directory, just run

# Go up a directory (there should be a .deb file here)
cd ..
# Install the package
sudo dpkg -i robot-api_0_all.deb

to install the package

Testing

The robot-api tests require robotd installed.

To run the tests, run python3 -m unittest and it will run all tests.