Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

Interfacing Tiva C LaunchPad with Python

In this section, we will look at how to connect Tiva C LaunchPad with Python to receive data from Launchpad in a PC.

The PySerial module can be used for interfacing Launchpad to Python. The detailed documentation of PySerial and its installation procedure for Windows, Linux, and OS X can be found here : http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial.html

PySerial is available in the Ubuntu package manager and it can be easily installed in Ubuntu using the following command in the Terminal:

    $ sudo apt-get install python-serial  

After installing the python-serial package, we can write Python code to interface Launchpad. The interfacing code is given in the following section.

The following code imports the ...