A fork of the Octopus project LINK

Blocktopus is an open source, MIT licensed, lab automation platform built on the blockly and twisted platform.

I recommend running the platform using Docker or Podman. The image has been built for amd64 and arm64. Running the image on a Linux host is recommended as you can access hardware natively (I believe this is not supported on a Windows or macOS host).

We run the platform on a Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB with Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS 64-bit.

1. Pull the image

   docker pull ghcr.io/gar-syn/blocktopus:latest

2. Run the container

   docker run --privileged -it -p 8001:8001 -p 9001:9001 -v /app/data:/app/data --name blocktopus ghcr.io/gar-syn/blocktopus

   Note: The above command contains--privileged which will grant the container access to system hardware (cameras, USB devices, serial devices, etc.). If you do not wish to do this please remove this option. Otherwise you can define which hardware can be accessed (LINK).

3. Access the platform

   http://127.0.0.1:8001

• Blockly - The Sketch interface

• Twisted - Event drive Python framework

• Richard Ingham - LINK

• Gary Short - LINK

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details