Anyway, while at work today I had an idea to make an application for my new phone. I haven’t got particularly far with it, only creating a library with a sprinkling of methods, one to “check in”, another to search for venues based on your GPS coordinates and one to do the actual data requests.

Even if you don’t understand Python, it shouldn’t be too hard to follow along. If anybody uses this cruft, let me know and I’ll apologise directly to you.

foursquare.py

Download robot code

Download arduino code

No idea what the liscence is with the code, I’m assuming some version of the GPL. I’m putting it up anyway. It is pretty hard, goes quite fast. Have fun!

I love Python. So clean and elegant. Loops are simple:

for i in range (0, 10):

print i

There is no hassle with curly braces either, though I do think they make things look prettier (but that is just syntactic sugar)

Been working on my robot code, split it up into modules. Was piss easy with Python. I need to get my hands on some form of chassis and an interface between it and my portable deck (which will run the code).

<scientist type=”mad”>MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!</scientist>

Ahem…

I have a first attempt at some sort of code to drive the robot. It is coded in Python (which I am falling in love with). Feel free to try it ou yourself (Disclaimer: if the code breaks something you agree to not hld me responsible. If it does any good, give credit)

#!/usr/bin/env python

def forward():
print “moving forward”

def reverse():
print “moving backwards”

def left():
print “turning left”

def right():
print “turning right”

while 1 == 1:
objectlocation = raw_input(“please enter the object location: “)
if not objectlocation == “front”:
forward()
else:
reverse()
if objectlocation == “left”:
right()
if objectlocation == “right”:
left()

Not very spectacular but it is a start. To use, run the script somehow on your system and type in stuff at the prompt. It only responds to front, left and right. Anything else is ignored.