RPi Tank

Coding of the control system for a model tank with Raspberry Pi. The project is divide into 4 sections:

1. Keyboard Controlled RPi tank with Remote Desktop Connection into the Raspberry Pi.
2. Keyboard Controlled RPi tank with Network Sockets.
3. RPi Tank video streaming via Network Sockets and http.
4. Line following RPi tank using OpenCV.

LineFollowing in ACTION!🤖:joystick:

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

What things you'll need in terms of Software and Hardware and how to install them:

Harware required

• 1. Raspberry Pi (Model 3 onwards recommended)
• 2. MotoZero PCB
• 3. Power Supply (5V Power Bank)
• 4. Pi Camera Module V2

Libraries

The list of libraries that are required are stated below:

1. GPIOZERO Library - A simple interface to GPIO devices with Raspberry Pi.

  pip install gpiozero
  
2. Pynput Library - Keyboard event handling Library for Tank's controls.
  
  pip install pynput
  
3. Pi Camera - This package provides a pure Python interface to the Raspberry Pi camera module for Python 2.7 (or above) or Python 3.2 (or above).  

  pip install picamera
  
4. OpenCV - Unofficial pre-built OpenCV packages for Python.

  pip install opencv-python

And repeat

until finished

End with an example of getting some data out of the system or using it for a little demo

Running the RPi Tank:

The final setup of the RPi tank looks something like ⏬

Sample Tracks for RPi Tank ⏬

▶️ Executing Programmes associated.

Follow the script execution cycle below:

1. Sprint 1 - Raspberry Pi and Tank/

•     cursesRobot.py: Remote Desktop Connect to the Pi and run the script on the Pi terminal as
                  curses module only runs on terminal window. This establishes
                 keyboard RPi Tank controls.

2. Sprint 2 - RPi controlled tank via Sockets/

•     pynputRobotClient.py: Socket client program that runs on the RPi.
  
•     pynputRobotClient.py: Socket server program that runs on the Local Machine ready for keyboard inputs.
  

3. Sprint 3 - PiCamera and OpenCV/

•     robotCameraClient.py: Socket client program that runs on the RPi for live video streaming.
  
•     robotCameraServer.py: Socket server program that runs on the Local Machine Playing streamed video.
  
•     httpCamera/
          httpCamer.py: Run the script to create the http server on the Pi. Now on the Local Machine
                   search for Pi's IP and the video stream will be available on the webpage.
  

4. Sprint 4 - Line following RPi Tank/

•     lineRobotClient.py: Socket client program for line Following RPi tank.
  
•     lineRobotServer.py: Socket server program for line Following RPi tank.
  

Built With

• Raspbian - OS for Raspberry Pi
• Python - Primary Programming Language.
• PyCharm - The IDE used for Develpment and the Recommended.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone whose code was used
• Inspiration
• etc