Python is a text language for issuing instructions to control a computer. The python shell is a text-based, interactive interface. You type instructions into the python shell to trigger behaviours you choose. This can help you learn by issuing one instruction or group of instructions at a time then immediately seeing the result, like this…
Both your laptop and VGkits’ Vanguard board are computers which can be controlled by python, and which have a python shell.
You can use python to control your Vanguard board via…
- its python shell
- …when connected from Google Chrome over Wifi
- …when connected from a terminal using a USB cable
- a file in a text editor…
- …then copy-paste code into the python shell to test behaviour
- …then upload the file to make the behaviour permanent
You can use python to command a laptop…
- …to connect to Vanguard over USB
- …to reset the Vanguard board or achieve special configurations
Find out how to connect to the python shell on your Vanguard board.