Control robot arm via web with Flask and Python (OWI Edge Maplin USB arm)
Learn how to control a robot arm via the web using Flask And Python on a Raspberry Pi. This video shows how to write this program, and even how to used a smartphone to control it. Controlling a robot arm with python3 is easy when you know how. This video is for the OWI Edge Robot arm with USB, also known as the Maplin Robot arm with USB PC interface.
Also used is a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Learn Robotics Programming, 2nd Edition is my recently released book on using the Raspberry Pi to build a robot with more sensing and control abilities than this arm. Buy it at https://packt.live/3rMEMHf.
Code for this arm is at https://github.com/orionrobots/python...
00:00 Intro
01:23 Tidying Up - robot arm cable management with spiral wrap
06:33 What you'll need on the Raspberry Pi - connections and Raspbian
09:21 Testing the usb_arm library - programming the robot arm with Python3
15:46 Using Python3 and Flask for basic web communication with the robot arm
19:26 Testing the simple flask and python robot arm control web server
22:02 Creating an arm web control server with many arm functions
25:12 Testing the advanced arm control server with Curl - POSTing data
27:16 Creating a web page template to control the arm in a browser
31:10 Adding links to the robot arm control web page
34:53 Testing the robot arm controlled web page from a Browser
36:49 Controlling the Robot Arm with a SmartPhone
39:55 Learn Robotics Programming 2nd Edition - make more robots here!
41:03 Video Wrap up
41:44 Outtakes and funny stuff
Music:
All music used in this video has been created by Danny Staple
Picture Attribute:
Muir Woods National Monument (Not really Endor), Public Domain.
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