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Pyqt5 Tutorial

This document provides a tutorial on creating a GUI with PyQt5, culminating in a project to control an RC car via Wi-Fi using HTTP requests. It covers installation, basic application setup, adding UI elements, using layouts, and creating tables, followed by a detailed RC car controller implementation. The tutorial concludes with suggestions for expanding the application with additional features like speed control and live camera streaming.

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Pyqt5 Tutorial

This document provides a tutorial on creating a GUI with PyQt5, culminating in a project to control an RC car via Wi-Fi using HTTP requests. It covers installation, basic application setup, adding UI elements, using layouts, and creating tables, followed by a detailed RC car controller implementation. The tutorial concludes with suggestions for expanding the application with additional features like speed control and live camera streaming.

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PyQt5 GUI Tutorial + RC Car Project

Introduction
This tutorial introduces the basics of GUI programming with PyQt5 and concludes with a mini-project
to control an RC car over Wi-Fi using an ESP8266 and HTTP requests.

1 Installing PyQt5
Run the following command:
pip install PyQt5

2 Basic PyQt5 Application

import sys
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QLabel, QWidget

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

window = QWidget()
window.setWindowTitle('My First App')
window.setGeometry(100, 100, 300, 200)

label = QLabel('Hello, PyQt5!', parent=window)


label.move(100, 80)

window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

3 Adding Buttons, Labels, and Inputs

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QLineEdit, QPushButton

# Inside your QWidget setup:


input_box = QLineEdit(window)
input_box.setPlaceholderText("Enter your name")
input_box.move(50, 50)

btn = QPushButton("Greet", window)


btn.move(50, 90)

def greet():
name = input_box.text()
label.setText(f"Hello {name}!")

btn.clicked.connect(greet)

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4 Using Layouts

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QVBoxLayout

layout = QVBoxLayout()
layout.addWidget(input_box)
layout.addWidget(btn)
layout.addWidget(label)
window.setLayout(layout)

5 Creating Tables

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QTableWidget, QTableWidgetItem

table = QTableWidget(3, 2)
table.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(["Name", "Age"])
table.setItem(0, 0, QTableWidgetItem("Ali"))
table.setItem(0, 1, QTableWidgetItem("21"))
layout.addWidget(table)

6 RC Car Controller Project


We’ll use a PyQt5 GUI to send HTTP commands to the RC car hosted on http://192.168.4.1 using
the ‘requests‘ library.

Install Requests
pip install requests

Full Controller Code

import sys
import requests
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout

class RCCarController(QWidget):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.setWindowTitle("RC Car Controller")
self.setGeometry(200, 200, 300, 300)

layout = QVBoxLayout()

self.up = QPushButton("↑ Forward")


self.down = QPushButton("↓ Backward")
self.left = QPushButton("← Left")
self.right = QPushButton("→ Right")

layout.addWidget(self.up)
layout.addWidget(self.down)
layout.addWidget(self.left)
layout.addWidget(self.right)

self.setLayout(layout)

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self.up.clicked.connect(lambda: self.send_command(1))
self.down.clicked.connect(lambda: self.send_command(2))
self.left.clicked.connect(lambda: self.send_command(3))
self.right.clicked.connect(lambda: self.send_command(4))

def send_command(self, direction):


url = f"http://192.168.4.1/carHandller?direction={direction}"
try:
requests.get(url, timeout=1)
print(f"Sent direction {direction}")
except:
print("Failed to connect to car.")

app = QApplication(sys.argv)
controller = RCCarController()
controller.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

Conclusion
You now have a complete GUI that sends HTTP requests to control your RC car! Try expanding the
app with:
• Speed control

• Live camera stream


• Stop button
• Battery level display

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