MorseAPI is an unofficial (and unsanctioned) python library for encoding and decoding messages rom and to
Wonder Workshop's
Dash and Dot
robots.
MorseAPI abstracts out the communication protocol and, through python methods exposes control of lights, motion and sensor data.
There exist smartphone apps which allow remote-controlling Dash and Dot, and even "writing programs" for them. However, the programming functionality is limited to drag-and-drop style and does not allow interaction with any industry programming languages.
That doesn't need to be the case - young kids can get started with the simple drag-and-drop interface to get some exposure and instill interest, then graduate to a programming API interface in order to create more complicated and complete implementations of their creative ideas.
MorseAPI provides that programming interface, in a language that is easy to pick up even for non-engineers: Python.
This is only tested on Debian, though it should work on other Linux flavors. OSX and Windows are NOT supported.
Steps:
- clone this repo and
cdinto it - pip install -e .
Dash and Dot have many different commands. Morse implements only fraction there of:
- LED Lights:
- Ears
- Top of Head
- Neck / Eye backlight
- Individual iris LEDs
- Iris brightness
tail light- Motion (Dash only)
- Head pitch and Yaw
- Move back and forth
- Turn left and right
- Sound
- Playback of built in sounds
Uploading new sounds- Sensor feedback
- Microphone volume
- Proximity Sensing
- Head pitch / yaw
- wheel rotation
- Dash sensing of Dot
- Robot picked / bumped / toppled oved
- Sound direction
- Gyro pitch/yaw/roll
- Vertical acceleration
- Clap
Battery stateRobot discovery- feature discovery (Dash & Dot have different feature sets)
Run:
$ python
>>> from morseapi import MorseRobot
>>> bot = MorseRobot()
>>> bot.reset()
>>> bot.say("hi")
>>> bot.move(100)
>>> bot.turn(45)
>>> bot.ear_color("red")
>>> bot.head_yaw(10)
>>> bot.eye(255)
>>> bot.eye(100)