SerialPlot – a Qt adventure on OS X

Preamble

This is probably going to be one of those projects that never ever gets properly finished, but that teaches a lot along the way.

First some background: Whilst following Paul McWhorter’s IMU BNO055 course, I had a requirement for a serial plotter application, one that was better than the paltry offering built into the Arduino IDE (it autoscales too much and isn’t particularly configurable). In the video course, SerialPlot is used, a nicely functional Qt based Windows and Linux application, but there is no OS X port (typical!).

I had previously found (sebnil/RealtimePlotter), which is a nice Processing based plotter but… well, maybe I was being overly fussy, but I really wanted a native application.

Now, porting the fully functional SerialPlot from Linux to OS X could be a direction to go, but… meh…

Then, after more searching, I found a Github repository for another serial plotter, pvd/SerialPlot, for OSX that is also, ironically, Qt based. Last commit was in 2011.

Knowing nothing about Qt, I thought I’d have a go at getting it working… on an old 2010 MBP running High Sierra (10.13.6), with Xcode 9.4.

WIP Status

Blocked by the qwt framework which isn’t seen by the SerialPlot build…

Course notes: IMU BNO055

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Course notes from 9-Axis IMU LESSON 1: Introduction to Nine Axis Sensors and Inertial Measurement Units with Arduino

Course Notes: Background removal

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Notes from Background Removal Like Zoom | OpenCV Python CVZone

Course notes: Tello basics

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Notes from Easy Programming of Tello Drone | Python OpenCV Object Tracking

Chasses

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Chassis

Course notes: Object detection on the Raspberry Pi

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Notes from Object Detection Raspberry Pi using OpenCV Python | 2020

Technoogy: Mobilenet ssd

Course notes: Drone Face Tracking

Preamble

Notes from

• Drone Face Tracking PID using OpenCV Pyhton | Tello (2020)
• Drone Face Tracking PID using OpenCV Pyhton | Tello (2020) p.2
• Drone Face Tracking PID using OpenCV Pyhton | Tello (2020) p.3

Course notes: Linear regression modelling

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Notes from:

• MACHINE LEARNING INTRODUCTION | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020)
• LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020)
• Linear Regression Model for Temperature Estimation | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020)
• Linear Regression Model Temperature Estimation | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020) p.2
• Linear Regression Model Temperature Estimation | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020) p.3

and

• Multiple Linear Regression | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020) p.1
• Multiple Linear Regression | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials (2020) p.2

and finally, COVID!!

• Corona Virus Predictor using Machine Learning with Python (2020)

Also (for background)

• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE vs MACHINE LEARNING vs DEEP LEARNING | Machine Learning with Python
• MACHINE LEARNING MATH EXPLAINED | Machine Learning with Python Tutorials

Steel series Cataclysm mouse

Preamble

I picked one up for 10 baht. Wow! (no pun intended) this is a giant mouse, and used to cost $99 back in the day.

After some serious fiddling with the buttons, they all work (initially buttons 6 and 7 didn’t), having confirmed using the Windows app, on Windows 10. The OS X application didn’t work on 10.13.6 (High Sierra).

Course notes: Self driving Pi Car

Preamble

This project is poorly presented, with no real logical video ordering. However, it covers a lot of topics and the project starts out as an ultrasonic Arduino controlled obstacle avoidance robot and works up to an optical path following robot, and then a CNN lane following robot… a real jack of all trades!

Notes from:

• Easy Object Following Robot using Arduino and PixyCam. Github: https://github.com/murtazahassan/Object-Following-Robot. Uses PixyCam, which has its own processor. Similar to the mecanum robot (see Robot Car – Jetson Nano and Arduino). Uses mapfloat(), normalises speed, and uses moveRobot()
• How To Make A DIY LINE FOLLOWER using Arduino at Home – Different car, no code in video. Github: https://github.com/murtazahassan/lineFollowerPID
• How To Make A DIY Arduino Obstacle Avoiding Robot – Different robot, no code in video.. Github: https://github.com/murtazahassan/Obstacle-Avoding-Robot.  Horrible code, the ultrasonic function, obstacleDetected() is a bit of a mess. Uses moveRobot()
• DC Motor(L298) – Basic+Object Oriented | Raspberry Pi Tutorials for Beginners (2020)
• The Ultimate Raspberry Pi 4 Robot | Beginner Friendly (2020) [p1]
• How to run Robot Motors | Motor Module | Ultimate Raspberry Pi Robot (2020)[p2]
• Github: https://github.com/murtazahassan/Raspberry-Pi-Ultimate-Robot

Next the keyboard and joystick videos from the Playlist:

• SETUP TO PROJECT in 20 mins | Raspberry Pi Tutorials for Beginners (2020)
• The Ultimate Raspberry Pi 4 Robot | Beginner Friendly (2020) [p1]
• How to run Robot Motors | Motor Module | Ultimate Raspberry Pi Robot (2020)[p2]
• How to install OpenCV on Raspberry Pi 4 | Raspberry Pi Tutorials for Beginners (2020)
• How to get Keyboard Press in Python | Raspberry Pi Ultimate Robot (2020)[p3]
• How to run Joystick with Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Ultimate Robot (2020)
• Object Detection Raspberry Pi using OpenCV Python | 2020 – meh – not done.

Then, finally

• Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi | OpenCV (2020) p.1
• Finding Lane | Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi (2020) p.2
• Warping Lane | Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi (2020) p.3
• Finding Lane Curve | Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi (2020) p.4
• Optimizing Curve Value | Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi (2020) p.5
• Hardware Implementation | Self Driving Car with Lane Detection using Raspberry Pi (2020) p.6

Additionally:

• OpenCV Raspberry Pi Self Driving Car using Neural Networks – Part1/3
• OpenCV Raspberry Pi Self Driving Car using Neural Networks – Part 2/3
• OpenCV Raspberry Pi Self Driving Car using Neural Networks – Part 3/3

These three videos are related to self driving simulation using Nvidia

• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020)
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.2
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.3
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.4
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.5
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.6
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.7
• Self Driving Simulation using CNN NVIDIA’s MODEL Tensorflow (2020) p.8