Here’s a post I wrote for TestIm a while back. It’s more of a listicle than a tutorial, but looking into Python tools I wasn’t already familiar with was fun. A few weeks ago, we talked about automating tests. Now it’s time to take a look at six of the best Python test automation tools. The good news is that the Python standard library already includes excellent unit testing tools. You can go a long way toward setting up robust test automation using the language’s built-in capabilities.

So far, you’ve unboxed and assembled a UCTronics Robot Car. Then, you set it up as a Wifi client and installed JupyterHub so you could write Python code to control it via a web browser. Just before the holidays, I dug up my old post about reading a USB game controller and refreshed it, so you can use a gamepad to control the car after I go over how to control the motors.

Last week I wrote up how to prepare the UCTRONICS robot I’ve been playing with for hacking.. This week, I’m taking a break to update an old tutorial from five years ago: how to use a gamepad to control a Raspberry Pi. This post has been around a few years, and I just found out that a bunch of images broke, so it’s time to update with a new Pi and easier-to-follow instructions.

Last week I assembled a Raspberry Pi-based car kit. I bought the kit from Amazon. (Affiliate link.) The car has a live video camera, a sonic collision sensor, and a line-following sensor. You’ll need a Raspberry Pi to go with it. I recommend a 3 B+. The car works with an Android or iOS app, and the apps are functional enough, but where’s the fun in simply relying on them?

Welcome to part 2 of my series on working with programming the GoPiGo and a Gamepad controller with Python. In part 1 I talked about what a gamepad “looks” like to a Raspberry Pi and how the excellent evdev package makes it easy to read and process information from it. I finished the post with a script that reads buttons on the gamepad and prints the direction it would send the GoPiGo in.