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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

Moving the paddle with Arduino code


The first step in making the entire system work is to test the motors. Fortunately, the GitHub site, https://github.com/JJulio/AHRobot, has the code that can make this happen. Download and unzip the code. Look in the AHRobot-master/Arduino/Utils/AHR_Motor_Test directory for the AHR_Motor_Test.ino program file. This file provides a simple test program to move the three stepper motors, first the x-axis stepper motor that moves the paddle back and forth across the table and then the y-axis stepper motors, the two motors which move the paddle forward and backward.

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If you are unfamiliar with how to develop and upload code for Arduino Mega, go to the https://www.arduino.cc/ website. It has a detailed set of instructions and an open source IDE for Arduino.

Run the program and open the Serial Port. You will see the following as the paddle moves:

If everything is connected correctly, the paddle should first move across the table, then move forward. If it does...

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