Wowwee::Mip

Ruby library to control the Wowwee Mip robot through Bluetooth Low Energy.

Requirements

ruby-ble gem which in turn has this requirements:

• ruby >= 2.3
• Dbus
• bluez >= 5.36 (available on debian testing)
• bluetoothd started with option -E (experimental)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'wowwee-mip'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install wowwee-mip

Usage

Instantiate the robot:

ble_address= '1C:05:B3:7D:95:74'
mip= Wowwee.mip(ble_address)

See status:

status= mip.status
puts status.battery_level   #=> 50
puts mip.game_mode          #=> :default

Play:

mip.set_head_led(:bfast, :bslow, :bslow, :bfast)
mip.drive_forward(speed: 30, times: 200)
sleep(1)
mip.stop

Examples

For usage examples and implemented features see the specs.

Robot Controller

There's an incipient 'interactive' shell to control the robot.

bin/console
irb(main):001:0> require 'robot_controller'
irb(main):001:0> c= RobotController.new
irb(main):001:0> c.chest_led

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tramuntanal/ruby-wowwee-mip. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.