[sudo-discuss] sudodesk robot tools

Ben Burke benjaminburke at me.com
Fri Nov 7 20:41:43 PST 2014


A new command line program called “motofile” has been added to sudodesk. It enables you to list, send, receive, and delete files on the robot. Use the command motofile -h for details.

Source and other documentation on github: https://github.com/glvnst/yasnac


> On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Ben Burke <benjaminburke at me.com> wrote:
> 
> I’ve symlinked 3 robot-related tools into /usr/local/bin on sudodesk. The new commands are motocommand, motomessage, and motodisk. They are under development and can break, but if you want to try them you should. Here’s how:
> 
> 1. Get people away from the robot
> 2. Turn on the robot with the black rotatey-dial thing on the top left of the robot cabinet door.
> 3. Press the “REMOTE” button on the right side of the robot console.
> 4. On sudodesk, type the following (including quotes): motocommand “SVON 1”
> 
> The robot will growl appropriately as the servos come on.
> 
> 5. Now on sudodesk, type the following (including quotes): motocommand “START DEMO"
> 
> Currently the robot job called DEMO is really slow and unimpressive. Maybe someone could make it wave around perilously… or play the marimba (gently)! We could make a converter that turns midi streams into robot motion.
> 
> If you want less exciting stuff, try the above steps, but instead of step 4, type: motomessage “MUST KILL HUMANS”
> 
> The robot will show up to 23 characters of your snarky input. I’m working on these remote mode tools here: https://github.com/glvnst/yasnac <https://github.com/glvnst/yasnac>
> 
> 

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