The completed robot base

You have now completed the robot base, which should look something like the following figure:

Figure 5.18 – The completed chassis

You've now built your first robot chassis! Hopefully, the first of many. Another way to look at what we’ve built is as a block diagram.

Figure 5.19 – The robot base as a block diagram

Figure 5.19 shows the current robot as blocks. We have the wheel assemblies, with built-in encoder sensors connected to the Inventor Hat Mini. That hat also has a cluster of RGB LEDs along with motor debug LEDs. The hat is connected to the Raspberry Pi, which has a connection to Wifi shown as a cloud, which we can use to connect with it headlessly.With the robot chassis completed, sporting wheels, a Raspberry Pi, and a battery, it is nearly ready to roll. It will need some code to really come to life.Your motors are ready to drive, and the Raspberry Pi is ready to run code without needing to be plugged into a wall. Combining...