A summary of what you have learned in this book

As a robot builder, you have started from the basic plan for a robot. You learned about skills useful for robotics, designing, building with tools, programming, interfacing electronics, or integrating systems combining all of these, so let’s dive deeper.

Basic robotics with Raspberry Pi Pico

From the first chapter, we learned about Raspberry Pi Pico, why it’s a great controller for robots, and how it stacks against others, considering the trade-offs between Pico and its larger Raspberry Pi family.

We covered ways in which Raspberry Pi Pico can be programmed and chose CircuitPython for it. CircuitPython has excellent access to hardware, with a growing library of support for many electronics modules used in robotics.

We took a tour of concepts such as the interface ports:

• GPIO to control or interface externally from Pico.
• UART, SPI, and I2C form data buses to send and receive data from devices.
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