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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints Utilize the powerful ingredients of Raspberry Pi to bring to life your amazing robots that can act, draw, and have fun with laser tags

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396282
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle 2. Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Tracked Vehicle That Can Plan Its Own Path 4. Building a Robot That Can Play Laser Tag 5. A Robot That Can Draw 6. A Robot That Can Play Air Hockey 7. A Robot That Can Fly Index

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 both the motors, as shown...

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