[Q] You tried a Pi-Face Control and Display (CAD)?

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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a radio controller for RC toys.

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[Q] You tried a Pi-Face Control and Display (CAD)? #8

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

Hi again,

I thought it would be awesome if the PiFace CAD (http://www.piface.org.uk/products/piface_control_and_display/) could be used with this program. I've written the scripts and everything. This would be a great bonus for your repo! Here's the link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jjncyh1gdho2sgp/pifacecad_interactive_control.py?dl=0

Here's a video of it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0RaCfn0hJQ&list=UUAdvO-XWlx-q6D_5bJ2blnA

Thanks again!

bskari commented 9 years ago

That's super cool, I love the video! Sorry about the late reply; I was reading through your earlier code but I'd never even heard of the PiFace CAD before (it looks awesome) so I was trying to get up to speed there, and I was out and away from Internet access for half of last week due to Thanksgiving in the US. I'll try to get this merged in, hopefully tomorrow. Looks good!

ghost commented 9 years ago

Thanks! I had to move the script to my dropbox account as my web server wasn't able to be kept online (it's a raspberry pi running Apache2) as I had to move it from my router and connect through WiFi - worst solution in my opinion; ethernet is far more reliable.

Anyway - I updated the file a few hours ago - it's much more tidy and efficient than before.

Hope Thanksgiving was a blast for you. In the video - I was calling the piface Pi-Rc script from my other python script as I had issues merging the script's; work's flawlessly never the less.

I haven't tested the DroneKiller program that you may have saw in the video. It kills the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 - a rather interesting device; I based it on a Bash script made by Darren Kitchen (Hak5).

ghost commented 9 years ago

Are you considering getting a PiFace CAD? I think it opens up a whole bunch of possibilities - best Pi-Purchase I've made so far.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Uploaded the most recent version to my GitHub (haven't managed a repository in ages): https://github.com/lavanoid/Pi-RC_CAD

bskari commented 9 years ago

Sweet! I got it added in. Thanks for the help! Sorry this took longer than I expected, but my ISP disconnected my service a few days ago and they're not sure why they disconnected it or how to get it reconnected, so I have to skip off somewhere local and leech off their WiFi for now.

Yeah, I'm really thinking about getting a PiFace now. They look really cool and useful. It'd be nice to have a small screen to be able to put some simple status information out there, and the hardware buttons are awesome too.

And hey, since you've been helping out with the repo a lot, you might consider forking this repo, making some changes and submitting a pull request. That way your contributions are reflected in the Git history (you did the work, you deserve the credit!) and it's easier for me to integrate changes by just clicking a button.

Thanks again!

ghost commented 9 years ago

@bskari Sure! I'll be sure to fork the repo as soon as I can. I'm going to the Raspberry Pi PiWars tomorrow in Cambridge, UK and I'll be sure to mention you and show them your work!

Thanks!