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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

Controlling your robot from a remote computer

The next step in constructing your laser tag playing robot is to add the remote control. You'll first need to add the ability to control Raspberry Pi via a WLAN connection. As noted in Chapter 1, Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle, the section, Accessing the RC Car remotely, showed you how to add a WLAN interface as an access point. To prepare for the next section, you will want to configure two Raspberry Pis with WLAN, one as an access point and other that you'll connect to the access point. You'll also connect a USB web camera to Raspberry Pi on the wheeled robot for control. Finally, when you have logged in to Raspberry Pi, this will function on the remote computer. Log in to the second Raspberry Pi on the wheeled robot by typing ssh –X pi@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of Raspberry Pi on the wheeled robot.

You can now luvcview to see the output of the webcam and you can run the input.py...

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