Time to get started on W.I.N.S.T.O.N. (Web)
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Context #
Hey there, so this will mostly be a quick post to give a plan as to what I’m going to be doing throughout the coming weeks and what I need to look into for the coming weeks in accordance with the project I’m doing with Sam and Morgan.
For some context:
Sam and Morgan are two of my classmates that I haven’t mentioned previously
As a part of the course, for year 12, there is a project that we will do for 3 terms (2-4)
This project is going to be used not only for the assignment but also for PyCon which will be held in person … [ About]
We have a first target for the project to be finished a basic version (something that can actually be accomplished in a term) around the end of term 2
NOTE: The points above are the exact same as in the Data Science post, but they give context to the project in case you haven’t read it
The Project #
Great, now that we have context, here’s the idea:
Sam, Morgan and I will be building a robot dog named W.I.N.S.T.O.N.. They will be working on the robotics side of it while I will be working on a server side (if that’s what we wanna call it). This means that I will be looking into setting up a server for W.I.N.S.T.O.N. as well as a dynamic website that has a login and live streams what W.I.N.S.T.O.N. sees onto the website (which from there I’m unsure what I will do, but when that is figured out, the table below will be updated with the new information)
Here’s what I will have to look into to make this work.
| To Do | Done |
|---|---|
| Setup connection to W.I.N.S.T.O.N. to allow data flow for CV | |
| Setup a python flask server | |
| Create a Home Page | |
| Create Users (with Username, Password [Hashed] and Avatar) | |
| Add admin page (For anything that might need to be sent to or from W.I.N.S.T.O.N. directly [UNCOMFIRMED, will have to talk with the boys about it]) | |
| Create Profile pages (Ideas to what to add for Users will add here) | |
| Add user collections (I have to figure out what that means [from the assessment page]) | |
| When not logged in, go to home page | |
| Create a W.I.N.S.T.O.N. page where the render will be streamed (This will be viewable by anyone but messages can be sent when logged in) | |
| Display live stream | |
| Any other ideas will be added to the table if this changes |
This table will be placed in the future posts so that I can refer back to it and continually work through the different items, with that I should be able to get the server and dynamic website up and running. The, though, I will need to create a connection between my computer and Winston to create a constant data stream that can be inputted into blender (This will be a part of the Web Dev, but if it changes, the table will update).
I’m looking forward to implementing this in the coming weeks, I’ll keep you updated.
NOTE: In the holidays I did work through up until chapter 15 of the Flask Mega-Tutorial, getting a fair understanding of how to use flask and different packages made for Falsk (As well as database integration).
NOTE 2: For info on the Data Science side of the project see here