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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

You're reading from  Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784396282
Pages 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle 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

Controlling the tracked vehicle using Raspberry Pi in Python


The first step to access the functionality is to install the library associated with the control board, which can be found at http://www.monkmakes.com/?page_id=698. You'll create a Python code that will allow you to access the two motors, similar to what you did in the first chapter. The first part of the code, which should look almost the same as the code that you created in the first chapter, will look as follows:

Now, the second part of the code that will drive the two different motors based on whether you want to go forward, backward, or turn right or left is as follows:

As previously discussed, the rr.set_motors() function allows you to specify the speed and direction of each motor independently. Now that you have the basic code to drive your tracked vehicle, you'll need to modify this code so that you can call these functions from another Python program. You'll also need to add some calibrated movement so that your tracked...

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