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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

Adding the electronics to your fish


The first step in adding the electronics is to add a servo controller; you'll use the same controller that was introduced in Chapter 3, Building a Wall-E Robot. First, you'll hook the three servos up to the servo controller, like this:

Now you can connect the servo controller to the battery. This is a bit complicated, as you'll need to connect the battery to the servo controller and to the Raspberry Pi. For the connection to the Raspberry Pi, you'll want to use a voltage regulator to convert your LiPo battery voltage to the 5V required by the Raspberry Pi. Here is an image of such a regulator:

These are available at most online electronics retailers. And you'll want to make sure you have a power switch so that you can turn your entire system on and off. These are also available at most online electronics retailers. Here is a diagram of the entire power system:

Once you have the servo controller connected to the servos and battery, you'll want to connect...