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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is known as a tiny computer built on a single circuit board. It runs a Linux operating system, and has connection ports for various peripherals so that it can be hooked up to sensors, motors, cameras, and more. Raspberry Pi has been hugely popular among hardware hobbyists for various projects, including robotics. This book gives you an insight into implementing several creative projects using the peripherals provided by Raspberry Pi. To start, we’ll walk through the basic robotics concepts that the world of Raspberry Pi offers us, implementing wireless communication to control your robot from a distance. Next, we demonstrate how to build a sensible and a visionary robot, maximizing the use of sensors and step controllers. After that, we focus on building a wheeled robot that can draw and play hockey. To finish with a bang, we’ll build an autonomous hexcopter, that is, a flying robot controlled by Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in applying an array of different technologies to create almost any imaginable robot.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Constructing the platform


Constructing the quadcopter hardware can be daunting; however, there are several excellent websites that can lead you through the process from component selection to build details and programming and controlling your quadcopter with a radio. The http://www.arducopter.co.uk/ website is a great place to start for those who are new to quadcopter flight. Go to http://copter.ardupilot.com/, which is another excellent website with lots of information.

For this project, you'll want to choose a project that uses the Pixhawk flight controller. There are other flight controllers that are significantly less expensive, but this particular flight controller provides easy access for Raspberry Pi. Here are some possible websites that can guide you through the construction process; http://learnrobotix.com/uavs/quadcopter-build/pixhawk/connecting-the-q-brain-esc.html, http://www.thedroneinfo.com/2015/06/06/build-a-quadcopter-with-pixhawk-flight-controller/, and http://www.flying...