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ESP8266 Robotics Projects

By : Pradeeka Seneviratne
Book Image

ESP8266 Robotics Projects

By: Pradeeka Seneviratne

Overview of this book

The ESP8266 Wi-Fi module is a self-contained SOC with an integrated TCP/IP protocol stack and can give any microcontroller access to your Wi-Fi network. It has a powerful processing and storage capability and also supports application hosting and Wi-Fi networking. This book is all about robotics projects based on the original ESP8266 microcontroller board and some variants of ESP8266 boards. It starts by showing all the necessary things that you need to build your development environment with basic hardware and software components. The book uses the original ESP8266 board and some variants such as the Adafruit HUZZAH ESP8266 and the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH ESP8266 . You will learn how to use different type of chassis kits, motors, motor drivers, power supplies, distribution boards, sensors, and actuators to build robotics projects that can be controlled via Wi-Fi. In addition, you will learn how to use line sensors, the ArduiCam, Wii Remote, wheel encoders, and the Gripper kit to build more specialized robots. By the end of this book, you will have built a Wi-Fi control robot using ESP8266.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

The DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing


The DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing allows you to drive the two DC motors that are attached to the bottom chassis layer. Figure 4.2 shows the pinout of the DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing, which includes the following things:

  • Motor power pins: Supply 5-12V DC through these pins to drive the motors
  • Motor outputs: You can connect up to 4 DC gear motors with M1, M2, M3, and M4 terminal blocks
  • I2C pins: SDA and SCL

Figure 4.2: Pinout of the DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing. Image courtesy of Adafruit Industries—https://www.adafruit.com

Downloading the Adafruit Motor Shield V2 library

First, you should download the DC Motor library from the Adafruit Motor Shield V2 library at https://github.com/ladyada/Adafruit_Motor_Shield_V2_Library/archive/master.zip. Then, copy the folder inside the ZIP file to the libraries folder inside your Arduino UNO Sketchbook folder and rename it Adafruit_Motorshield. After renaming the folder, restart the Arduino UNO IDE for the Adafruit_Motorshield...