📃 Getting Started with Dragit

📃 Getting Started with Dragit 📃 Getting Started with Dragit

Dragit is a visual programming language that was originally made for animations. While the program still contains come code for animation, we’ll just ignore it because we’re going to use the programming language to build self-driving algorithms instead. We need to get Dragit operating so we can use it to program our car.

Setting Up Dragit For The First Time

To set up the Dragit interface, run the following commands:

cd ~/sensorcar/BetaboxDragit/

We are now going to install some extra things we need for Dragit to operate. Type in:

sudo ./install

Which will look like:

The program will then ask you to reboot. To do that, type:

 sudo reboot

SSH back into your Raspberry Pi using PuTTY.

Starting Dragit

We are going to start Dragit for the first time! Before we do, make sure you are in the right folder by running:

cd ~/sensorcar/BetaboxDragit/Dragit

Type in the following command from that folder to run Dragit:

./start

This should run Dragit.

Opening Dragit

Once it is running, open a web browser and enter 192.168.X.XX:8000 or hostname:8000 but replace the Xs with the numbers in the address of your Pi that we found earlier.

You should now see the Dragit interface on your browser, like this:

If this step isn’t working then you may need to go back to the networking section and either do those steps again or chat with us.