Setting up a Serial Communication Interface with Pictorus
In this post we'll demonstrate how to read radio transmitter data sent to a Raspberry Pi 4's dedicated UART interface, in order to control a Yahboom G1 Tank.
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Building a robotic software API using Pictorus
To illustrate creating a new component from scratch, we're going to use the Yahboom G1 Tank as our hardware platform. The component we build here will be available on the public marketplace (for free), so you can incorporate it into your own Yahboom projects.
Estimating range with an ultrasonic sensor using Pictorus
Ultrasonic rangefinders are everywhere in the robotics world. These devices emit acoustic pings outside our audible range to estimate short distances (within a few meters) from a hardware platform. In this post we'll demonstrate how to quickly connect to and get a range estimator up and running, with
'Hello World!' - Controlling LEDs with Pictorus
In this post we'll run through the customary "Hello World" exercise in electronics - controlling LEDs via software.
Configuring a Pictorus app to always run on your device
In a previous blog post we showed off how to build a range finder in Pictorus using a simple off-the-shelf acoustic transceiver. Now that we have this component working, we'll dive into how to deploy this app permanently to a Linux device, so other apps can communicate with
Connecting to a new device with Pictorus
In order to start building and running apps on a device, we'll need to sync it with your Pictorus account. In this post we'll run through these steps.