Controlling a robot arm with Python, bluetooth and Bluedot (OWI Edge Maplin USB arm)

In this video I demonstrate controlling a robot arm via a phone using the Bluedot system, an app on the phone and some python code running on a Raspberry PI Zero W, created by Martin O' Hanlon.

This uses a Bluetooth connection, and different regions of the dots control movement in different ways, so sliding left or right on one of the dots will make the base rotate. It may be possible to improve the code with more representative elements than the dots, but I had fun playing with this anyway.

I use an Android Smartphone to control it, and the code is running in Python3. This video uses an OWI Edge Robot arm with USB, also known as the Maplin Robot arm with USB PC interface.

Bluedot library: https://github.com/martinohanlon/BlueDot Arm library: https://github.com/orionrobots/python_usb_robot_arm Code for this video: https://github.com/orionrobots/python_usb_robot_arm/tree/master/demos/bluedot

Music:

The music used in this video Is "Stardrive" from the youtube musical library.

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