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Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects - Third Edition

By : Richard Grimmett, Jon Witts
Book Image

Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects - Third Edition

By: Richard Grimmett, Jon Witts

Overview of this book

This book will allow you to take full advantage of Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3 by building both simple and complex robotic projects. The book takes a mission-critical approach to show you how to build amazing robots and helps you decide which board to use for which type of robot. The book puts a special emphasis on designing mobile (or movable) robots using the Raspberry Pi Zero. The projects will show inexpensive, yet powerful, ways to take full advantage. It will teach you how to program Raspberry Pi, control the movement of your robot, and add features to your robots.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 6. A Self-Balancing Robot

Now that you've built an astounding number of cool projects, you are ready to take on a slightly more complex technical challenge; building a robot that can balance on two wheels. This type of vehicle was unknown until the advent of the Segway and now has seen lots of new interest with hover boards that allow users mobility in a very small size.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • How to build a self-balancing, two-wheeled robot

  • How to use control theory to make your robot stable

Let's get started by building a simple hardware platform.