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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

Giving your robot voice commands

Now that your robot knows how to respond to the commands from the Python program, you can now add the capability to your robot to respond to voice commands. You'll also add the capability to allow your robot to speak, this will make the robot more interactive.

To add these capabilities to your robot, you'll need to add some hardware. This project requires a USB microphone and speaker adapter. Raspberry Pi itself has an audio output but does not have an audio input. So, you'll need the following three pieces of hardware:

  • A USB device to plug in a microphone and speaker
    Giving your robot voice commands
  • A microphone that can plug into the USB device
    Giving your robot voice commands
  • A powered speaker that can plug into the USB device
    Giving your robot voice commands

Fortunately, these devices are inexpensive and widely available. Make sure that the speaker is powered because your board will generally not be able to drive a passive speaker with enough power for your applications. The speaker can use either internal battery power or can get its power...

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