Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico
When you plan, you create the best chance for a mission’s success. We want to build robots in an achievable way. Let’s start with a plan in mind! We’ll use this plan to explore why Raspberry Pi Pico is a great fit for this and make a shopping list!
In this chapter, you’ll learn about Raspberry Pi Pico’s capabilities. You’ll discover CircuitPython and understand why it is a great language for Raspberry Pi Pico. Additionally, we’ll plan a robot design and understand the trade-offs to make choices about the robot early in the project. We’ll check that our robot fits together, working out the parts and tools you’ll need with suggestions on how to get them.
At the end of the chapter, you’ll have both a plan and parts arriving so that you are ready to build a robot. Additionally, you’ll have a starting process for making other robots and setting yourself up for success with them.
In this chapter, we’ll cover the following main topics:
- What is Raspberry Pi Pico, and why is it suitable for robotics?
- What is CircuitPython?
- Planning a Raspberry Pi Pico robot
- Test fitting a Raspberry Pi Pico robot
- A recommended shopping list for robot basics
