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A zero boiler plate bluetooth remote
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Raspbery Pi Pico W with Bluetooth #186

Open Bernd54Albrecht opened 1 year ago

Bernd54Albrecht commented 1 year ago

BlueDot works fine with Raspberry Pi and Python. I like it. But start time for Raspi is about one minute. Why not take the Pico W with the new support for Bluetooth. Proposal: Support for Micro Python; new APP, if necessary. Thanks again for BlueDot, from my opinion the best remote control for robot cars.

martinohanlon commented 1 year ago

Its a great idea and already (notionally) on my list, it is however a pretty significant update and it would require the creation of a micropython version of the comms layer bluedot.btcomm, as well as I suspect a lot of other changes. It may end up being an entirely different library.

Bernd54Albrecht commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the swift reply. I was not the only one asking on the news page https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-functionality-bluetooth-for-pico-w/ . May I encourage you to do it. I would like to support, but I think I can't.

Bernd54Albrecht commented 1 year ago

At least, I can advertise for the APP in Germany. As I did for the existing APP https://www.az-delivery.de/blogs/azdelivery-blog-fur-arduino-und-raspberry-pi/robot-car-steuern-mit-bluedot .

Bernd54Albrecht commented 1 year ago

Hello Martin,

(probably) the first Robot Car is controlled by Pico W and Bluetooth BLE. Attached please find two programs based on the examples on github. I use a 5-digit-code (from earlier projects with HC-12), where the potis are scaled down to 0 to 31, with 16 for the middle positions for y (forward/backward) and x (left/right). Fifth digit is the joystick button. For the time being, controller is a second Pico W, but I can connect my smartphone with the APP LightBlue and punch in the 5-digit-code (not very handy). I did not succed to connect with MIT APP Inventor/MIT AI2 Companion, but I am working on it. (never used MIT App Inventor before). Looking forward to BlueDot for the Pico W. That would be the best solution.

Greetings Bernd

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Its a great idea and already (notionally) on my list, it is however a pretty significant update and it would require the creation of a micropython version of the comms layer bluedot.btcomm, as well as I suspect a lot of other changes. It may end up being an entirely different library.

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rvwilliams88 commented 1 year ago

I really wanted to use BlueDot with my pi peco w and I'm disappointed that it uses a lot of modules or classes not currently available in MicroPython (for example future , Event in threading). I'm not an experienced Python developer so I'm not able to code the necessary items.