It took us far longer than anyone thought it would, should, or could, but we actually got our Code to run, and move the Go1!! We are still having problems connecting from a Virtual Machine and that will cause us problems programming low level, BUT we actually got our code to run on the Go1!
The mistake we were making was having the quad in the wrong mode. Once we saw that in the class file, we figured it out. We made a loop and had the Go1 walking on patrol in the room for a while.
I assume that the JS API does not allow access to the sensor data to program more than dead reckoning, correct? If it is, where can we find the methods for that?
Our next step is to solve the virtual machine connectivity problem and be able to code in the Ubuntu environment so we can install and run ROS for lower level control. Anyone having similar problems with virtual machine environments?
We’re running Virtualbox on a Mac all in one as host to Ubuntu Mate 20.04. We tried setting the Network setting to Bridged Adapter, which I thought would pass everything through the Host connection (WiFi connected to the Go1 SSID). We could ping from the terminal to the Go1, but sending code got no connection. The same code on the Host ran perfectly
I’m away from the machine over the weekend, so I can’t send the files till Monday but it was just the basic change the LEDs to start with. I will copy and paste the code from the json and the trial.js files into a doc, unless you know of a better way to get the code to you in a format you can easily check?
I should probably get the kids using git to control all these versions soon.
Getting the students using GitHub (or a git-based system) would be amazing. I’d be happy to assist and perhaps we should do a mini-course discussing how to use the the tool? One option would be to create a gist. I do that a lot when trying to share code snippets. Here are some I’ve created recently:
I already have an account with Gitlab from my CS courses this Summer so I went with that. Also, it’s unblocked at my school. This is going to be a small problem with having secondary schools access it. At least some IT departments will be queasy about opening up github.
So hopefully this works better. I think I might have put the Gitlab snippet inside of a private project so that might have screwed up the permissions. I started a fresh github project for this and set it to public so hopefully you can see it.
Also, @dbaldwin I think a lesson on git would be an awesome idea. What I know about it fits in a very small package and leaves plenty of room left over. It would be very helpful to hear from someone who uses it professionally and regularly.
Yes, it was unexpected, but I do like the head movement. What is your next video going to be? Can you show some sample movements other than walking? Thanks.
