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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 7. Adding the Raspberry Pi to a Quadcopter

If you've chosen to construct even a few of the projects in this book, you have an amazing array of projects to play with. However, there is one area that you haven't explored yet: flight. This project will help you dive into the area of flight; you'll add the Raspberry Pi to a flying machine to explore the skies.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to do the following:

  • Interface the Raspberry Pi with the flight controller on a quadcopter

  • Create a system that enables long-range communications

  • Add GPS so that you can know where your quadcopter is in order to know your location

  • Fly your quadcopter autonomously

Let's get started by adding the Raspberry Pi to a quadcopter platform.