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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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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

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 3. Building a Tracked Vehicle That Can Plan Its Own Path

Now that you are comfortable using Raspberry Pi, the next project you'll tackle is building a tracked robot that can explore and map a room autonomously.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • How to use the General-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins to control the speed of a DC motor
  • How to control your mobile platform programmatically using Raspberry Pi
  • How to connect Raspberry Pi to a USB sonar sensor
  • How to connect a digital compass to Raspberry Pi
  • How to plan a path for your tracked vehicle
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