What you can do with Flybrain Robot Bridge

3 use cases

• Run the synthetic fly-brain demo without hardware

  Clone the repo and watch the mock neural backend turn synthetic frames into motor commands.

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  Clone https://github.com/Himas1211/flybrain-robot-bridge, create a Python 3.11 virtual environment, install it with pip install -e ".[dev]", and run python -m flybrain_robot.main --backend mock --synthetic. Report the final motor commands and watchdog state. Verify that the run finishes without opening a network connection or camera.

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• Test motion and looming output from a webcam or video

  Feed a webcam or your own video into the mock backend in dry-run mode to inspect vision signals.

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  In the flybrain-robot-bridge repo, run python -m flybrain_robot.main --backend mock --video <path-to-video.mp4> --dry-run on the file at <path-to-video.mp4>. Report the motion, looming and motor activity values over the run. Verify that the output shows dry-run and that no UDP packets were sent.

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• Calibrate a physical robot link in safe steps

  Set motor limits and send commands to a lifted robot only after dry-run checks pass.

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  In the flybrain-robot-bridge repo, copy config.example.yaml to config.yaml and set robot_ip, pc_port, robot_port and motor limits from the values I give you for <robot-ip>. Run the dry-run checks first and report the output. Do not run with --send unless I confirm the robot is lifted and the power cutoff is in place.

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How to use Flybrain Robot Bridge

1. Check you have what it needs: Python 3.11 or newer; git and a terminal; A webcam or a video file, optional, for live or recorded input.
2. Open Frankweb33/flybrain-robot-bridge on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Clone the repo with git clone https://github.com/Himas1211/flybrain-robot-bridge.git and enter the folder with cd flybrain-robot-bridge.
4. Create and activate a virtual environment with python3.11 -m venv .venv and source .venv/bin/activate.
5. Install the project with pip install -e ".[dev]".
6. Run the default demo with python -m flybrain_robot.main --backend mock --synthetic.

These steps come from our top use case, Run the synthetic fly-brain demo without hardware, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forRobotics hobbyists and researchers who want to explore fly-inspired control signals safely in simulation before any hardware is involved.
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• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/Frankweb33/flybrain-robot-bridge · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or newer
• git and a terminal
• A webcam or a video file, optional, for live or recorded input
• A calibrated robot, network link and independent motor power cutoff, only if you plan to use --send

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