Arduino Web Controller

A website-based controller for custom Arduino outputs.

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Hacking together Arduino components is often tedious and requires a lot of hassle. People who like hardware find that they must write many scripts to do the most simple tasks. Software people often want to control the hardware from the web or even their phones. Our project aims to solve both of these problems through an intuitive web service to control your Arduino components on the web based on your Arduino code. People can collaboratively control these boards and more exciting features could be implemented from the use of this project.

Running the server locally

  1. cd server
  2. sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. python app.py
  4. Open the website in a browser at http://localhost:5000

Running the arduino client with arduino

  1. Install Adafruit NeoPixel Library
  2. Load script onto arduino following client protocol for defining outputs (see test-arduino-scripts/TestArduinoScript/TestArduinoScript.ino)
  3. Plug in arduino
  4. cd arduino-client
  5. sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  6. python arduino_client.py com_port [token] [e.g. python arduino COM8, Note: token is used to re-use the same name without creating a new board and having to navigate to the new name on the website]
  7. Go to http://localhost:5000/ and enter the assigned board-name to start controlling the outputs!

Arduino protocol

  1. Make sure Adafruit NeoPixel Library has been installed
  2. Open test-arduino-scripts/TestArduinoScript/TestArduinoScript.ino
  3. Edit LONGEST_STRIP to the number of LEDs in your longest strip
  4. Edit noStrips to the number of LED strips you have
  5. Define WS_LEDs[#][0] for how many LEDs in strip number
  6. Define WS_LEDs[#][1] for which pin the strip is on

Running the test client for checking server requests

  1. cd test-server-client
  2. sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. python client.py
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