cylon-sphero-ble

Cylon.js For Sphero BLE Robots

Cylon.js (http://cylonjs.com) is a JavaScript framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

This repository contains the Cylon.js drivers to connect to the Sphero BB-8 and Sphero Ollie Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) robots from Sphero (http://www.sphero.com/).

It was formerly named cylon-ollie, but is now renamed cylon-sphero-ble to better fit the new expanded functionality.

It uses the Sphero.js node module (https://github.com/orbotix/sphero.js) created by @orbotix thank you!

Want to use Ruby on robots? Check out our sister project Artoo (http://artoo.io)

Want to use the Go programming language to power your robots? Check out our sister project Gobot (http://gobot.io).

How to Install

$ npm install cylon cylon-sphero-ble

How to Use

var Cylon = require('cylon');
 
Cylon.robot({
  connections: {
    bluetooth: { adaptor: 'central', uuid: 'cc360e85785e', module: 'cylon-ble'}
  },
 
  devices: {
    bb8: { driver: 'bb8', module: 'cylon-sphero-ble'}
  },
 
  work: function(my) {
    my.bb8.color(0x00FFFF);
 
    after(500, function() {
      my.bb8.color(0xFF0000);
    });
 
    after(1000, function() {
      my.bb8.roll(60, 0);
    });
 
    after(2000, function() {
      my.bb8.roll(60, 180);
    });
 
    after(3000, function() {
      my.bb8.stop();
    });
  }
}).start();

How to Connect

Before you will be able to program the BB-8/Ollie, you will need to determine the BLE address of your robot. One way to do this, is to use the cylon-ble-scan command line utility installed as part of cylon-ble.

Once you know your address substitute it into your code, and away you go!

You can run the examples in this repo like this:

ADDRESS="f3f26d557108" node examples/color.js

Documentation

We're busy adding documentation to cylonjs.com. Please check there as we continue to work on Cylon.js.

Thank you!

Contributing

For our contribution guidelines, please go to https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md .

Release History

For the release history, please go to https://github.com/hybridgroup/cylon-sphero-ble/blob/master/RELEASES.md .

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The Hybrid Group. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.