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Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786467966
Pages 238 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Authors (2):
Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Jon Witts Jon Witts
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Building Your Own Futuristic Robot Building a Wall-E Robot Building a Robotic Fish Creating a Robotic Hand with the Raspberry Pi A Self-Balancing Robot Adding the Raspberry Pi to a Quadcopter

Communicating between the servo controller and a PC


Now that the servo controller is connected ,you can use some software provided by Pololu to control the servos. This is done just to make sure you have everything hooked up correctly, and to set the controller's setting. Unfortunately, the software won't run on the Raspberry Pi; you'll need to do this using your personal computer. First, download the Pololu Software from www.pololu.com/docs/0J40/3.a and install it according to the instructions on the website.

Once it is installed, run the software, and you should see this screen:

You will first need to change the configuration on Serial Settings, so select the Serial Settings tab, and you should see this:

Make sure that the USB Chained is selected; this will allow you to connect and control the motor controller over USB. Now go back to the main screen by selecting the Status tab, and now you can actually turn on the 12 servos. The screen should look like this:

Now you can use the sliders...

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