Intro

Welcome to Wordle bot - a robot that solves wordle puzzles.

You can watch the video to see how it works.

This code is offered without any support - it runs locally on my machine with my setup - you may or may not be able to get it to run locally on your machine.

Setup

You'll need python3 installed - check to see what you have with:

python3 -v

You'll also need some native dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libopenjp2-7 libtiff5 libatlas-base-dev -y

And follow any instructions to install python3.

Run the following to create the virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv

And then activate the environment:

source venv/bin/activate

Finally, install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

To install the PiCamera dependency (if you want to run everything on the pi):

sudo apt-get install python3-picamera -y
pip install -r requirements_pi.txt

Jupyter notebooks

There are two notebooks that you can use to try out the code:

image_processing.ipynb

This notebook contains all the image processing code - I've included a couple of sample images to test this out on in the images folder.

solver.ipynb

This contains the code for solving the wordle puzzles.

Python code

The file main.py contains the brains of the robot. This file can be run on a RaspberryPi with direct access to a camera or on the desktop with access to a URL that returns JPEG files.

camera.py contains the code for interfacing with the camera - it will either read directly from the PiCamera, from a file, or from a URL.

printer_control.py this contains the code for interfacing with the printer. My printer is running the Duet RepRap V3 firmware.

Camera Stream

If you want to run the code on your desktop then you can use the code in the camera_stream folder to spin up a simple server on the RPi that will return JPEG files from the camera.