This project provides APIs to control an OWI Edge robot arm using C or Python.
If you need to stop the robot arm right away, just unplug the USB cable from your computer.
Use setup.py to build and install the library:
python setup.py install
Then try it out!
$ python
>>> import owi
>>> owi.init()
>>> owi.light_on()
>>> owi.light_off()
>>> owi.light_toggle()
>>> owi.light_toggle()
>>> owi.base_left(1.5)
>>> owi.base_left(0.5)
>>> owi.base_right(2)
>>> owi.shutdown()
Build the tool via make. You'll need libusb-1.0 and
the headers installed for this to work. On Ubuntu you can
get this installed via
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
Use ./owi to run the program.
There are three keys per motor: forward/stop/reverse.
m | m | m | m | m5
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | (base)
---+---+---+---+-----------
e | r | t | y | i o p
d | f | g | h | l <- light on/off
c | v | b | n |
See libowi.h for the available functions.