Progress & Tech Logs
Latest updates related to the continual development and behind the scenes making of Bowie robot kits
Tech Log #013: Map with device class
The task of the day was to change the current way of device data to be object oriented in Javascript. Learned about an old way to make Javascript objects (ES5), then learned about the new way to do so with classes (ES6). Created a device class in a separate device...
Tech Log #012: Map displaying point from MQTT
There's now a dot being displayed on the map corresponding to the data received through MQTT on the AWS server. The loglooper of Bowie's data, which sends the MQTT messages, is running continuously on the AWS server too. There was a minor change in the topic...
Tech Log #011: Loglooper to MQTT broker
Derived a python program from convert_data.py to loop through an already processed Bowie log file, called loglooper. When it processes a line, it also sends the data to the MQTT broker. There's a 1 second delay per line. The server was able to receive the data...
Tech Log #010: MQTT connected to map
Today MQTT was integrated into the map, and the basic MQTT topic structure was decided. Basically, devicename/latitude, with the data being that value. The navigation controls were added to the map by modifying mappa.js with the correct Mapbox GL function. Tests were...
Tech Log #009: Start of map
Today the map was created from previous code experiments with mappa.js that Robot Missions worked on in 2018 and 2019. This uses AWS, MQTT, p5.js, mappa.js, and Mapbox GL. The version of Mapbox GL library was changed in mappa.js from v0.43.0 to v1.12.0. Solved a lag...
Kit Log #058: Now online, three more piece pages
The three pieces pages that were in progress during the previous kit log are now online. Check them out here! Super bright lights Operator interface Power pack kit Some work was done in order to figure out which kit to work on next. The highest priority ones are the...
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