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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints
Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints: Utilize the powerful ingredients of Raspberry Pi to bring to life your amazing robots that can act, draw, and have fun with laser tags

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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

Chapter 1. Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle

The introduction of powerful, inexpensive processors that also provide a wide range of functionality through free open-source software has caused the do-it-yourself electronic project work to expand far beyond the simple, less than inspiring projects of the past. Now the developers can, with very low cost, create amazingly complex projects that were almost unthinkable a few years ago.

Many in this community are using Raspberry Pi as the basis for this revolution. This book provides simple, easy-to-follow instructions on how to use the Raspberry Pi in some very complex and sophisticated projects. Now enough of the introduction, let's start building something.

In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • How to modify an Xmods RC car using Raspberry Pi
  • How to set break into the control circuitry of the car and use Raspberry Pi to control it
  • How to use wireless communication to add remote control to the car

Configuring Raspberry Pi – The brain of your projects

A brief note before you start. In this book, you'll be using Raspberry Pi B2, a microprocessor that can run on the Linux operating system. The following is an image of the unit, with the different interconnectors labeled:

Configuring Raspberry Pi – The brain of your projects

As this is an advanced projects book, you have already spent some time with Raspberry Pi and know how to write Raspbian/Wheezy on an SD card and boot your Raspberry Pi. If you don't, feel free to go to the Raspberry Pi website at https://www.raspberrypi.org/. Here you'll find all the instructions that you need to get your Raspberry Pi B 2 up and running.

Note that you may want to install your system on a microSD card that has at least 8 GB of memory. In some of the projects that you'll be building, you'll be installing some fairly significant pieces of open source software and you may not want to run out of memory.

Now you are ready to start with some simple product modification. Let's start with an RC car; you'll replace the transmitter and control the car with a wireless connection on Raspberry Pi.

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Key benefits

  • Learn to implement a number of features offered by Raspberry Pi to build your own amazing robots
  • Understand how to add vision and voice to your robots.
  • This fast-paced practical guide comprises a number of creative projects to take your Raspberry Pi knowledge to the next level

Description

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is known as a tiny computer built on a single circuit board. It runs a Linux operating system, and has connection ports for various peripherals so that it can be hooked up to sensors, motors, cameras, and more. Raspberry Pi has been hugely popular among hardware hobbyists for various projects, including robotics. This book gives you an insight into implementing several creative projects using the peripherals provided by Raspberry Pi. To start, we’ll walk through the basic robotics concepts that the world of Raspberry Pi offers us, implementing wireless communication to control your robot from a distance. Next, we demonstrate how to build a sensible and a visionary robot, maximizing the use of sensors and step controllers. After that, we focus on building a wheeled robot that can draw and play hockey. To finish with a bang, we’ll build an autonomous hexcopter, that is, a flying robot controlled by Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in applying an array of different technologies to create almost any imaginable robot.

Who is this book for?

This all-encompassing guide was created for anyone who is interested in expanding their knowledge in applying the peripherals of Raspberry Pi. If you have a fancy for building complex-looking robots with simple, inexpensive, and readily available hardware, then this book is ideal for you. Prior understanding of Raspberry Pi with simple mechanical systems is recommended.

What you will learn

  • Add sensors to your robot so that it can sense the world around it
  • Know everything there is to know about accessing motors and servos to provide movement to the robotic platform
  • Explore the feature of adding vision to your robot so it can “see” the world around it
  • Refine your robot with the skill of speech recognition so that it can receive commands
  • Polish your robot by adding speech output so it can communicate with the world around it
  • Maximize the use of servos in Raspberry Pi to create a drawing robot
  • Strengthen your robot by adding wireless communication skills so you can see what the robot is seeing and control it from a distance
  • Build an unbelievable autonomous hexcopter controlled by Raspberry Pi

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Table of Contents

8 Chapters
1. Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Building a Tracked Vehicle That Can Plan Its Own Path Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Building a Robot That Can Play Laser Tag Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. A Robot That Can Draw Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. A Robot That Can Play Air Hockey Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. A Robot That Can Fly Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Botmaker Jan 04, 2016
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This is a great book, especially for those who learn by doing. Each chapter digs in and shows you a specific example with a complete step by step process that any level of maker should be able to understand. The included pictures and screen shots go a long way towards a reader understanding what is being accomplished by the author in each example. I recommend this book to both new builders and those with experience, as they each can gain from reading and performing the exercises.
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Simon Docwra Jan 13, 2016
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This book is well written and extremely easy to read. The projects demonstrated are both educational and to me very practical. I don't get a lot of free time, but the way this book is structured you can easily pick up where you got to or jump from project to project. The projects are also quick to get into making use of open source libraries and second hand toys.
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Werner Dec 28, 2015
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we at developer-blog.net love this book. The chapters are all unique in content and give many great suggestions on how to implement your own Raspberry Pi controlled robot. All tutorials are straight forward, but good explained. In general, they are for advanced users with basic knowledge, but also beginners can learn a lot. All used sensors are cheap to get from here (Amazon) or other online platforms like ebay.My favorite chapter was how path planning is implemented with some basic Python scripts.
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Richard J Breiten Dec 20, 2015
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Richard Grimmett continues his series of books on Arduino, BeagleBone, and Raspberry Pi's with this book on Robotic Blueprints. This book covers using these microcontrollers in RC vehicles, making a tracked vehicle plan its own path, building a robot that plays laser tag, and even a flying robot. This book is not intended for those just getting their feet wet in using an RPi and its fellow brethren but rather to expound upon the knowledge the reader already has. Source code for many portions and projects is provided by the author to assist the reader in coming up with their own projects. All in all, this is a very good discourse on robotic projects featuring the evolving area of microprocessors. I look forward to seeing what the author and the manufacturers can create in the coming next few years.
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Andrew Connell Dec 18, 2015
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I'll admit when I picked this up, it wasn't what I thought it would be. Each chapter is a separate hands-on project like taking apart and controlling a R/C car with a RaspberryPi. A lot of the pictures did a decent job of showing where the connections were and how things were hooked up but some schematic drawings would have helped with hookups. All in all, a good book if you are looking for a "I learn best with experience, so let me dive into a few projects."
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