AutomataKit Router
This is a message passing device and USB link for the automatakit architecture.
The board includes one USB-to-UART Bridge, a CP2102n, which is treated as the router's 6th port.
Development Notes
See circuit chatter and firmware chatter.
Viable Commands
Test
Keycode: 127
- to test networking, this will reply with a payload packet containing
127, 12, 24, 48and will toggle an LED on the board
Reset
Keycode: 128
- issues a software microcontroller reset
- if the microcontroller is already hung up, this will not work
ATKRouter + RPI
We can run atk on a dedicated raspberry pi hooked up to a machine. This is nice, because we can keep machine local state at the machine, and provide a nice machine display / ui / development environment in one spot. Great.
To do so,
Setup the Raspberry Pi
Install Node on the Raspberry Pi
- to install node, download the distro you want from nodejs.org
- extract the files, and hit these commands
navigate to the distribution
cd <distro>
copy that to local space on the pi
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
to check that node is installed, check the version using
node -v
which should return the version number of the distro you installed.
Reproducing This Work
All automatakit works are open source, and while we cannot sell you boards, if you have an interesting application, get in touch to ask about collaborating.
To reproduce boards and load code, see the document 'Reproducing Automatakit Work'