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Lua_2W_Motor: 2 wheel motor library for Lua running on wireless router

2 wheel motor library for Lua running on wireless route

This is a motor library for Lua running on wireless router which flashed with OpenWrt firmware. It allows a wireless router control the motors without using micro-controller. This library works on any dual-full-bridge driver such as L298.

Each motor require two GPIOs for controlling, therefore 2 motors will use up 4 GPIOs. Most of the wireless router may not have enough GPIO to control the motors, but you can use other pin on the router such as the LED pin, this require to unload the leds_gpio module.

 

Source code and download

  • Download the source code (Lua_2W_Motor.zip) to your computer.
  • Extract the zip file to your computer.
  • Upload all files to router \usr\lib\lua directory, I'm using WinSCP to upload files from computer to wireless router as shown in figure below.
    Upload files using WinSCP

 

  • Right click the two files and change its permissions to 0755 as shown in figure below.
    Change file permissions

 

GPIO Configuration

The default configuration is configured to follow the GL-iNet wireless router pinout (i.e. GPIO 20, 19, 18, 22 & 21), you may change the following value to suit yourself.

Motor[1].pinA = 21
Motor[1].pinB = 22
Motor[2].pinA = 18
Motor[2].pinB = 19

Using the library

Lua comes with the default installation and support web service. Following steps show you how to test the Lua_motor library under the Lua command line interpreter.

  • SSH to wireless router.
  • Enter router user name and password.
  • Type lua to bring up the Lua command line interpreter as shown in figure below. Each command enter into the Lua interpreter is executed immediately.

    login as: root
    root@@192.168.2.1's password:

    BusyBox v1.22.1 (2014-09-20 22:01:35 CEST) built-in shell (ash)
    Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

    _______ ________ __
    | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_
    | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _|
    |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____|
    |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D O M
    -----------------------------------------------------
    BARRIER BREAKER (14.07, r42625)
    -----------------------------------------------------
    * 1/2 oz Galliano Pour all ingredients into
    * 4 oz cold Coffee an irish coffee mug filled
    * 1 1/2 oz Dark Rum with crushed ice. Stir.
    * 2 tsp. Creme de Cacao
    -----------------------------------------------------
    root@OpenWrt:~# lua
    Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio (double int32)
    >



Controlling a Motor

Lua_2W_Motor library must loaded before you can controlling a motor.
Syntax: motor_run(motorNumber, direction)
Where motorNumber can be 1 or 2, direction must be either FORWARD, BACKWARD or STOP

  • Example 1: Motor 1 forward
    >require "2w_motor" --import the Lua_2W_Motor library
    >motor=1
    >motor_run(motor, FORWARD) --or motor_run(motor, 8)
  • Example 2: Motor 2 backward
    >motor=2
    >motor_run(motor, BACKWARD) --or motor_run(motor, 2)
  • Example 3: Motor 1 stop
    >motor1
    >motor_run(motor, STOP) --or motor_run(motor, 5)

Controlling a car

Syntax: car_run(direction)
Where direction can be FORWARD, BACKWARD, LEFT, RIGHT & STOP

  • Example 4: Car forward
    >require "2d_motor" --import the Lua_2W_Motor library
    >car_run(FORWARD) --or car_run(8)
  • Example 5: Car stop
    >car_run(STOP) --or car_run(5)
  • Example 6: Car left
    >car_run(LEFT) --or car_run(4)

Controlling a car from web browser

Create a new file with the following codes and save it as \www\cgi-bin\car. Remember to change its file permission to 0755.

#!/usr/bin/lua
require "gpio"
require "2w_motor"

local str= os.getenv("QUERY_STRING") -- query string from URL
local cmd= string.sub(str,1,1) -- first characters
value=tonumber(parameter) -- convert from string to integer
car_run(value)

Now you can use the following url to control the car
http://routerIP/cgi-bin/car?NUMBER
Where NUMBER is ranged from 1 to 9

  •  Example 1: Car forward
    http://192.168.8.1/cgi-bin/car?8
  • Example 2: Car Stop
    http://192.168.8.1/cgi-bin/car?5
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