{"id":725,"date":"2010-12-24T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T06:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-12-24T22:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T12:43:15","slug":"mecanum-wheel-base-software-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/mecanum-wheel-base-software-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecanum Wheel Base Software Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video first this time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QE9Zacy5AdE\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QE9Zacy5AdE\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More of a dump of the test files this time, better description\/explanation next time. \u00a0Proper write-up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/19\/mecanum-wheel-base\/\" target=\"_blank\">mecanum wheels<\/a> soon too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A Python script runs as a web-server with a browser frontend (laptop\/Android\/iPhone) using press and swipe actions to control movement of the wheelbase. \u00a0Controls are sent as POST data from the browser to the python script which then on-sends it via pyserial to the Pololu USB Servo Controller. \u00a0Software package tested on Laptop, but should run well enough on a Chumby \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Test Software Package :-\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MWRover_24Dec2010.zip\">MWRover_24Dec2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video first this time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}