Building and controlling a basic wheeled vehicle

To build this project, you'll want to start with a simple wheeled vehicle. There are many possibilities. The following is a two wheeled vehicle available at many online retail outlets like https://www.amazon.com or http://www.ebay.com:

First, you'll build the vehicle using the instructions that come with it. The vehicle uses two DC motors, so you'll control the direction and speed of your robot using a DC motor controller. Since it is so flexible and you are already familiar with it, you'll use the RaspiRobot Board V2. The following is an image of the board:

The specifics on the board can be found at http://www.monkmakes.com/?page_id=698. Connections to the board are very similar to the tracked vehicle connections that were described in Chapter 3, Building a Tracked Vehicle That Can Plan Its Own Path. You'll place the motor controller on top of the vehicle, connect the battery to the motor controller, and then connect...