Hi! I am in the middle of a project in which i am attempting to get a robot arm with 3 joints- Elbow, top shoulder and side shoulder- to copy the operators arm movement in real time. I have basic coding experience, and i can get the motors to move using commands- but I've hit a snag regarding how i am meant to move on to the next step which is getting the servos to respond to sensor data. I have a 9-axis BLE sensor, which i can use to output information regarding its position, into a terminal (I'm using Termite 3.3 on my windows PC but this doesnt work on the Raspberry Pi). I really dont know where to go from here. I need to download sensor data onto a program on the Raspberry Pi in real time and translate the values into individual servo motion. Any help is more than hugely appreciated.

 

Strap position encoders to the operator's arm.

 

There is a terminal emulator called "minicom" that runs on the Raspberry Pi that will probably do the same thing as Termite 3.3 does on a PC.
This is a link to some information on it.

Les.

 

Putty works great on the PI and lets you save to file really easy.
cutecom is really good too.

minicom is a little hard to handle if you never used it before.

Cutecom is very easy to use.