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Marco Schwartz
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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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Let's start with the most difficult part of this project: assembling the robot itself. Of course, the exact steps will depend on the robot chassis you are using, but the goal is to give you the main steps in this section.

We start by actually mounting the Arduino Yun board on the robot chassis using the screws and headers provided with the chassis itself:

Once that's done, we mount the Arduino Uno board on top of the Yun using an extra row of headers. Then, we tightly screw the Arduino Uno board into the metallic headers.

Then, we mount the motor shield on top of the Arduino Uno board. Next, we insert the cables from the motors into the dedicated headers on the motor shield and secure them with the screws. Make sure that you are using the same polarity for both motors.

Here is the result at this point:

Now, we are going to assemble the CC3000 breakout board on the prototyping shield, which will then sit on top of the robot. To know how to connect the CC3000 board, please...

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Marco Schwartz

Marco Schwartz is an electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and blogger. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Supélec, France, and a master's degree in micro engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has more than five years' experience working in the domain of electrical engineering. Marco's interests center around electronics, home automation, the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms, open source hardware projects, and 3D printing. He has several websites about the Arduino, including the Open Home Automation website, which is dedicated to building home automation systems using open source hardware. Marco has written another book on home automation and the Arduino, called Home Automation With Arduino: Automate Your Home Using Open-source Hardware. He has also written a book on how to build Internet of Things projects with the Arduino, called Internet of Things with the Arduino Yun, by Packt Publishing.
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