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76 lines
1.9 KiB
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# Sphero SPRK+
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The Sphero SPRK+ is a toy robot from Sphero that is controlled using Bluetooth LE. For more information, go to [http://www.sphero.com/sprk-plus](http://www.sphero.com/sprk-plus)
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## How to Install
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```
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go get -d -u gobot.io/x/gobot/...
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```
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## How to Use
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```go
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package main
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import (
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"os"
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"time"
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"gobot.io/x/gobot"
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"gobot.io/x/gobot/platforms/ble"
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"gobot.io/x/gobot/platforms/sphero/sprkplus"
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)
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func main() {
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bleAdaptor := ble.NewClientAdaptor(os.Args[1])
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sprk := sprkplus.NewDriver(bleAdaptor)
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work := func() {
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gobot.Every(1*time.Second, func() {
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r := uint8(gobot.Rand(255))
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g := uint8(gobot.Rand(255))
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b := uint8(gobot.Rand(255))
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sprk.SetRGB(r, g, b)
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})
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}
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robot := gobot.NewRobot("sprk",
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[]gobot.Connection{bleAdaptor},
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[]gobot.Device{sprk},
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work,
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)
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robot.Start()
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}
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```
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## How to Connect
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The Sphero SPRK+ is a Bluetooth LE device.
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You need to know the BLE ID of the SPRK+ you want to connect to. The Gobot BLE client adaptor also lets you connect by friendly name, aka "SK-1247".
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### OSX
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To run any of the Gobot BLE code you must use the `GODEBUG=cgocheck=0` flag in order to get around some of the issues in the CGo-based implementation.
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If you connect by name, then you do not need to worry about the Bluetooth LE ID. However, if you want to connect by ID, OS X uses its own Bluetooth ID system which is different from the IDs used on Linux. The code calls thru the XPC interfaces provided by OSX, so as a result does not need to run under sudo.
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For example:
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GODEBUG=cgocheck=0 go run examples/sprkplus.go SK-1247
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### Ubuntu
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On Linux the BLE code will need to run as a root user account. The easiest way to accomplish this is probably to use `go build` to build your program, and then to run the requesting executable using `sudo`.
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For example:
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go build examples/sprkplus.go
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sudo ./sprkplus SK-1247
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### Windows
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Hopefully coming soon...
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