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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

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:

Controlling the tracked vehicle using Raspberry Pi in Python

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:

Controlling the tracked vehicle using Raspberry Pi in Python

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...

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