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Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop

You're reading from Raspberry Pi Pico DIY Workshop Build exciting projects in home automation, personal health, gardening, and citizen science

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801814812

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Home Automation

Authors (2):

Sai Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: An Introduction to the Pico

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi Pico FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Serial Interfaces and Applications

4. Chapter 3: Home Automation Projects

5. Chapter 4: Fun with Gardening!

6. Section 2: Learning by Making

7. Chapter 5: Building a Weather Station

8. Chapter 6: Designing a Giant Seven-Segment Display

9. Chapter 7: Designing a Visual Aid for Tracking Air Quality

10. Section 3: Advanced Topics

11. Chapter 8: Building Wireless Nodes

12. Chapter 9: Let's Build a Robot!

13. Chapter 10: Designing TinyML Applications

14. Chapter 11: Let's Build a Product!

15. Chapter 12: Best Practices for Working with the Pico

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Motor selection and control

In this section, we will discuss the various motor options available to build a robot. For a typical desktop robot, the various motor options include the following:

Direct Current (DC) motors
Stepper motors
Servo motors

Let's discuss the applications of these motors.

DC motors

DC motors are ideal for wheeled robots. The following figure shows the DC motors used to drive the wheels of our robot. DC motors are widely used in toys because of their low cost and their small size. The DC motors used in our robot come with an in-built gearbox to reduce the revolutions per minute (rpm) and make it suitable for a wheeled robot.

DC motors are typically operated using an H-bridge circuit. This enables the speed and direction of travel to be controlled.

Figure 9.11 – DC motors on the robot

Stepper motors

Stepper motors are ideal for positioning applications. For example, stepper motors can be...

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Authors (2)

Sai Yamanoor

Sai Yamanoor

Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his undergraduate work in mechatronics engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India and his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve the quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures, such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.

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Srihari Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He is certified in SolidWorks, simulation, sustainable design, PDM as well as in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His has a wide range of interests, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, photography to gardening and ecology.

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