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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

Chapter 2. Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot

Modifying an RC car with Raspberry Pi is a wonderful project, but you can take this idea even further by modifying different toys with Raspberry Pi. One class of toys that are excellent candidates for our project are a set of robot toys by WowWee. You can purchase these toys from the company directly at http://wowwee.com/, but you can also find used versions of these toys on eBay for a significantly lower price.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • How to send and receive voice commands
  • How to interpret commands and initiate actions

There are several toys that have excellent possibilities. One such toy is the WowWee Roboraptor. The following is an image of this robot:

Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot

Another option is the WowWee Robosapien. A picture of this robot is given in the following image:

Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot

You'll use this robot for your project, as it has more functionality and is easier to modify. Specifically, you're going to connect to the internal...

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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints
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