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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

Constructing a drawing platform using servos and brackets

To begin the project, you'll first need to build a robot arm to do the drawing. There are several robotic arms, which are available at many online electronics outlets and eBay, that would do well for this application. A less expensive approach would be to use a set of servo brackets and construct your robotic arm. The following is an image of this arm:

Constructing a drawing platform using servos and brackets

To construct this arm, you can purchase a set of servo brackets on eBay or look for a kit that uses a six degrees of freedom (DOF) mechanical robotic arm at any one of the several online electronics retailers. You can either build the kit or an arm of your own design. Remember to make sure that you get servos with enough torque. For the upper end of the arm, almost any servo will do. For the servo attached at the base and up the chain, you'll need servos with fairly significant torque capabilities. I like to use the HS-645MG servos by Hitec for this application, they have...

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