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Marco Schwartz
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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 now see how to assemble the robot:

  1. First, I recommend that you mount the ultrasonic sensor directly on the robot chassis using an adapter, if possible. These usually come with the ultrasonic sensor.

  2. Then, mount the Galileo board on top of the robot chassis using metal spacers, which usually come with the robot chassis.

  3. After this, you can mount the motor shield on top of the Galileo board.

  4. Also, connect the motors to the motor shield by ensuring that you connect both motors with the same polarity on the shield.

    This is a view of the front of the robot at this stage:

    At this stage, the back view of the robot is as follows:

  5. Now, it's time to connect the ultrasonic sensor. Note that if you want to use a prototyping shield (so as to connect more sensors in the future), this is the time to do so. For the ultrasonic sensor, you have three pins to connect: VCC, GND, and the signal pin. When looking at the back of the sensor, this signal pin is the fourth pin starting from...

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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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