Setting up your TJBot to use Node-RED

If you have a Raspberry Pi, you might have most of things needed to use Node-RED and control the TJBot. If not, today’s tutorial will get you set up. You’ll need a microSD card that you can format.

The first video tutorial shows how to download and flash Raspberrian Jessie with Desktop image using Etcher on a Mac.

Node-RED comes preinstalled with Raspbian Jessie, however it is an older version. This video tutorial shows how to use the Node-RED upgrade script, which takes the pain of a lot of moving parts and packages it up in a sweet shell script.

The next thing is to install the Node-RED nodes for the TJBot that I’ve written. Forgive me for now, you’ll have to dive into the command line to install them. Maybe by the end of the 30 day challenge, someone will submit a pull request to make this simpler to install via the Node-RED editor.

Finally, the last video shows how to create a TJBot profile that will be used by all the TJBot nodes. This video simply gives a name and gender of the TJBot.

If you’ve survived today, I promise tomorrow is going to be easier. We train TJBot how to wave.

This post is part of a series of skills you can train TJBot to perform.