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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

Creating the hardware platform


There are several inexpensive, basic tracked vehicles that can be the base for your robot. Here is a picture just such a unit:

The unit can be purchased at many different online electronics outlets, such as eBay, Amazon, Banggood, and other vendors. This example uses the Wali SUV SN1100 V2 available on eBay. It, of course, comes unassembled, so let's briefly look at how to build the unit. Here is a picture of all the parts:

Here are the steps to assemble the unit:

  1. The first step is to open up the plastic bag and look at all the parts. Here they are:

  1. Now you'll need to put the wheels together. These fit inside the tracks. Two of them, the ones with the outer rim that is spoked, will be connected to the DC motors. But let's start with ones that don't have spikes on the outer rim. Here is a picture of one of the wheels assembled:

  2. Half of the wheels have three holes, the other half six, although you'll only need to assemble the wheels with three. Here is the...