Robots and Physical Computing

Guest Blogger Hiren Mistry, Nuffield Research Placement Student working at the University of Northampton. How to use a PS3 Controller to move a USB Robot Arm on a Raspberry Pi By Hiren Mistry This program enables the user to control the robot arm via a PlayStation 3 Controller, through USB connection. Requirements: ·        PyUSB- This must be installed so the Python Code can interact with the USB Robot Arm. It can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyusb/files/PyUSB%201.0/1.0.0/pyusb-1.0.0.tar.gz/download ·        PyGame- This module is needed to receive input from the PS3 controller. It can be downloaded from http://www.pygame.org/download.shtml   How does it Work? To receive the input from the controller PyGame is used. PyGame is a set of modules used for writing games and contains the necessary modules need to receive the PlayStation controller input. The input consists of...