Make Arduino Dice Robot

Arduino controlling servo motor with dice animating web app

What you need in things

1. Arduino inventor kit (available in Amazon, Sparkfun)

• Arduino Uno
• Servo motor
• Small jumper cable
• Breadboard

2. Cardboard, Stick for arm

3. Computer to run a webserver

What you need in software

1. virtualenv for Python environment setup
2. Code from this repo

Servo Setup

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sik-experiment-guide-for-arduino---v32/experiment-8-driving-a-servo-motor

Install and Run

1. Create a virtualenv (For more info, go to http://virtualenv.org)
2. In the newly created virtualenv env (meaning after source $env_folder$/bin/activate), git clone https://github.com/imju/dice_arduino.git
3. Run 'pip install requirements.txt' to install Flask and PySerial
4. Open Arduino editor for arduino/servo.ino and upload to arduino (Note down the port!)
5. Update port information in move.py in the following line with your port

• ser = serial.Serial('/dev/cu.usbmodem1421', 9600, timeout=5)

6. Run 'python hello.py'
7. Go to http://127.0.0.1:5000
8. Have fun! ( Currently supports single dice up to 6 digits)

Demo at https://youtu.be/zqtqyddbNbw

Credit: Dice program is from Anton Natarov for details http://www.teall.info/2014/01/online-3d-dice-roller.html