Robots-For-All (IEEE - HI)

Raspberry Pi Development Image

The Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 is an inexpensive development computer. A bootable image and installation instructions are available here as a compressed tar file. This image contains all the necessary tools to start developing for the robot above.

The tools include:

• Bash Command Scripts in /home/pi:
  • Load_Micro_Python.sh - Uploads MicroPython into the ESP32
  • serial.sh - Invokes minicom to connect to the ESP32 via serial @ 115200
• apache2 - Web server
• arduino - Arduino IDE to build sketches (programs) for the robot
• arduino-cli - Command line build tool for sketches (programs) for the robot
• code - Visual Studio Code, a code editor
• dnsutils - Network tools
• idle - Python editor GUI
• mariadb-server - Database server
• minicom - Terminal emulator to connect to the USB port on the robot
• php - Scripting language (similar to C) for web server, includes:
  • libapache2-mod-php - Web server security support
  • php-curl
  • php-gd
  • php-mbstring
  • php-mysql - Database support
  • php-zip - Compression and decompression support
• python - Programming language (interpreter), includes:
  • pip - Library installation support
  • thonny - IDE
• wireshark - Network sniffer