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Learning Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Learning Raspberry Pi Unlock your creative programming potential by creating web technologies, image processing, electronics- and robotics-based projects using the Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783982820
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Serge Schneider Serge Schneider
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Samarth Shah Samarth Shah
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More electronic components

You are already one step closer to building your own robot as you already know the basics of electronics and have developed few applications using Raspberry Pi. To take further steps in this direction, in this chapter, you will learn how to develop a remote-controlled robot that will be able to live stream video over the Internet and also send distance of the nearest object in real time. Before you move ahead, you need to understand a few more electronics components:

  • Introduction to motors
  • Introduction to multimeter
  • The robotic base
  • The level converter
  • Motor driver IC / H-Bridge
  • The Raspberry Pi camera
  • An ultrasonic sensor
  • The Raspberry Pi battery
  • The Raspberry Pi WiFi module

Introduction to motors

As mentioned earlier, in this chapter, you will develop a remote-controlled robot with some add-on features, so the first thing that you need to make a robot movable are wheels. Now, once you got the wheels, you need some mechanism that can control the speed of the wheels. Motors...

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