This is a test web app for controling an Arduino/Polulu Zumo driven, Android enabled telepresence robot
Important parts to building out this project, besides this server remote control app
- An Android phone, put it in debugging mode
- Cordova (/phonegap/ionic/w.e.) with the Android SDK put in its build path
- Cordova Android application- zumobrain
- Cordova plugin for communicating with Arduinos- cordovarduino
- An Arduino powered robot like the Zumo
- Code for your Arduino powered robot zumoTesting
Setting up the server
- Node.js and NPM (grab complete dependencies with "npm install") Note "postinstall" may fail locally because of the differance in how it points to directories between local and Heroku Given thats the case run "bower install" in the views directory to get Bootstrap, Socket.io and JQuery
- A startup script to set the following enviornment variables
- PORT
- SESSION_SECRET
- NAME
- PASSWORD
To start the web server locally
The following is an example script (start.sh) to start this web app locally with needed enviornment variables
#!/bin/bash
# Script for starting our service locally
PORT="3000"
export PORT
# session secret for client side cookies on the service
SESSION_SECRET="putyoursecretheremakeitgood"
export SESSION_SECRET
# export and user name and password, will probably provide a way to hash in a future update
NAME="yourname"
export NAME
PASSWORD="lameplaintextpassword"
export PASSWORD
node serve.js
MIT license Copyright 2016 Paul Beaudet