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Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246079
Pages 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Danny Staple Danny Staple
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Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface Part 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics with Raspberry Pi Pico
Chapter 1: Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 2: Preparing Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 3: Designing a Robot Chassis in FreeCAD Chapter 4: Building a Robot around Pico Chapter 5: Driving Motors with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2: Interfacing Raspberry Pi Pico with Simple Sensors and Outputs
Chapter 6: Measuring Movement with Encoders on Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 7: Planning and Shopping for More Devices Chapter 8: Sensing Distances to Detect Objects with Pico Chapter 9: Teleoperating a Raspberry Pi Pico Robot with Bluetooth LE Part 3: Adding More Robotic Behaviors to Raspberry Pi Pico
Chapter 10: Using the PID Algorithm to Follow Walls Chapter 11: Controlling Motion with Encoders on Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 12: Detecting Orientation with an IMU on Raspberry Pi Pico Chapter 13: Determining Position Using Monte Carlo Localization Chapter 14: Continuing Your Journey – Your Next Robot Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Exercises

You can use these exercises to practice more of the concepts learned in this chapter:

  • Could you write code to follow an object at a fixed distance? If it’s further away, could you drive it forward, and if it’s too close, back it up a little?
  • Try different materials in front of the robot, such as glass, black fabric, thin paper, and thick paper. Observe which are detected and how they affect the distance detected. For example, what happens if you aim the robot at a mirror?
  • Try observing the distance measurements in different light conditions, such as room light, darkness, and full sunlight.
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Danny Staple
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Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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