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Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Zero W Wireless Projects Go mobile with the world's most popular microprocessor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788290524
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vasilis Tzivaras Vasilis Tzivaras
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Hardware overview

In this section, we will cover all the necessary hardware. Upcoming is a list of all the hardware used. Of course, you can use anything else you want instead of the ones mentioned here, but I think that the list is cheap enough to build your first robot. To sum up, we will build a two-wheeled robot with encoders, using Arduino Mega as the controller board and lastly a Bluetooth to have a connection with our Android application:

  • DC motor and wheels
  • Motor encoders
  • Arduino microcontroller
  • Motor shield
  • Servo
  • Ultrasonic distance sensor
  • Bluetooth
  • Breadboard
  • Battery
  • Other components

The final robot that we will make is as follows:

DC motor and wheels

As we have already described, the DC motor is an actuator...

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