World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets

World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets

by kevinrohling

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Overview

In this post, Author say that arduinos are tons of fun and recommend remotely controlling robot to you. And, Author recommend solutions how to remotely control robot. It is to use pusher, a real-time push notification service that runs over WebSockets.

Building the WebSocket Client

WebSockets are an interesting hybrid between HTTP and raw TCP connections. They start life very much like a normal HTTP GET request. In the request the client sends a bit information asking for an “upgraded” connection. Once the server sees this, if WebSockets are supported it sends a response back with a status code of 101 indicating that the connection was successfully upgraded. Then, and here’s where things diverge from HTTP, nobody closes the connection. Both the client and the server remain connected to each other. Here’s what this looks like at the socket level:

• Client Requests a WebSocket Connection

  GET /app/yourpusherapikey?client=js&version=1.9.0 HTTP/1.1
  Upgrade: WebSocket 
  Connection: Upgrade 
  Host: ws.pusherapp.com:80 
  Origin: ArduinoWebSocketClient
  

• Server responds indicating that the upgrade was successful

  HTTP/1.1 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake
  Upgrade: WebSocket 
  Connection: Upgrade 
  WebSocket-Origin: ArduinoWebSocketClient 
  WebSocket-Location: ws://ws.pusherapp.com:80/app/yourpusherapikey?client=js&version=1.9.0 
  Connected
  

Controlling an Arduino Robot using Websockets and Pusher

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