pyRoboClaw

Unofficial library for talking to RoboClaw motor controllers sold by Pololu. We wrote our owm because the manufacturer supplied ridiculously shitty code.

WARNING The API is not stable yet. Some of the methods do other things than the name suggests because of our specific application.

Example

You might have to read the RoboClaw manual and the source code to understand what the commands actually do.

from roboclaw import RoboClaw
import time

roboclaw1 = RoboClaw(port='/dev/ttyACM0', address=0x80)
# Read the roboclaw manual to understand the trajectory parameters
roboclaw1.drive_to_position_raw(motor=1, accel=0, speed=0, deccel=0, position=25, buffer=1)
while True:
    print(roboclaw1.read_position(1))
    time.sleep(0.5)

Install

Tested on Python 3.5 and 3.6. It will probably not work on Python 2.

pip install roboclaw