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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot 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

Constructing the platform

Constructing the hardware and connecting it to the table is a significant challenge. Fortunately, there is an excellent website that explains how to construct the entire hardware system using three-dimensional printed parts at http://jjrobots.com/air-hockey-robot-a-3d-printer-hack/. This website even provides you with the opportunity to purchase the three-dimensional printed parts. Follow the detailed instructions to build the hardware. Here is a picture of the hardware that is connected to a small air hockey table that was purchased at a local toy store:

Constructing the platform

In the documented example, the controller is a laptop that is connected to a PlayStation 3 (PS3) Eye camera. For this project, you'll replace the laptop and PS3 camera with Raspberry Pi and a webcam. And instead of having Arduino calculate the paddle position, you'll be using Raspberry Pi. To understand how to do this, you'll first need to understand how to control stepper motors with Arduino and...

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