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Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico

You're reading from Robotics at Home with Raspberry Pi Pico Build autonomous robots with the versatile low-cost Raspberry Pi Pico controller and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803246079

Length 400 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Danny Staple

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics with Raspberry Pi Pico

2. Chapter 1: Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Preparing Raspberry Pi Pico

4. Chapter 3: Designing a Robot Chassis in FreeCAD

5. Chapter 4: Building a Robot around Pico

6. Chapter 5: Driving Motors with Raspberry Pi Pico

7. Part 2: Interfacing Raspberry Pi Pico with Simple Sensors and Outputs

8. Chapter 6: Measuring Movement with Encoders on Raspberry Pi Pico

9. Chapter 7: Planning and Shopping for More Devices

10. Chapter 8: Sensing Distances to Detect Objects with Pico

11. Chapter 9: Teleoperating a Raspberry Pi Pico Robot with Bluetooth LE

12. Part 3: Adding More Robotic Behaviors to Raspberry Pi Pico

13. Chapter 10: Using the PID Algorithm to Follow Walls

14. Chapter 11: Controlling Motion with Encoders on Raspberry Pi Pico

15. Chapter 12: Detecting Orientation with an IMU on Raspberry Pi Pico

16. Chapter 13: Determining Position Using Monte Carlo Localization

17. Chapter 14: Continuing Your Journey – Your Next Robot

18. Index

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Further reading

These additional resources will help you learn more about the concepts covered in this chapter:

A great YouTube video by Afrotechmods shows more about PWM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPziPfaByw.
Sparkfun has an explanation of PWM at https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/pulse-width-modulation/all where, in addition to its use of motors and servo motors, it shows how you can use the technique to control LED brightness.
Adafruit, the team that created CircuitPython, has a PWM programming tutorial at https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-essentials/circuitpython-pwm.
My book Learn Robotics Programming, Second Edition, also published by Packt, has a chapter covering motor steering mechanisms, including the one seen here, with Python code for Raspberry Pi.

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Authors (1)

Danny Staple

Danny Staple

Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.

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