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Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Python Programming with Raspberry Pi Build small yet powerful robots and automation systems with Raspberry Pi Zero

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467577
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai Yamanoor Sai Yamanoor
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Srihari Yamanoor Srihari Yamanoor
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Python and the Raspberry Pi Zero FREE CHAPTER 2. Arithmetic Operations, Loops, and Blinky Lights 3. Conditional Statements, Functions, and Lists 4. Communication Interfaces 5. Data Types and Object-Oriented Programming in Python 6. File I/O and Python Utilities 7. Requests and Web Frameworks 8. Awesome Things You Could Develop Using Python 9. Lets Build a Robot! 10. Home Automation Using the Raspberry Pi Zero 11. Tips and Tricks

Buttons for robot control


In this section, we will add implement buttons to the web interface to drive the robot.

  1. The first step is adding four buttons to index.html. We will be making use of HTML Table to add four buttons (Code snippet shortened for brevity and refer to http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp for more information on HTML tables):
       <table style="width:100%; max-width: 500px; height:300px;"> 
         <tr> 
           <td> 
             <form action="/forward" method="POST"> 
               <input type="submit" value="forward" style="float:
               left; width:80% ;"> 
               </br> 
             </form> 
           </td> 
       ... 
       </table>
  1. In web_interface.py, we need to implement a method that accepts POST requests from the buttons. For example, the method to accept requests from /forward can be implemented as follows:
       @app.route('/forward', methods = ['POST']) 
       def forward...
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