You're reading from Practical Arduino Robotics A hands-on guide to bringing your robotics ideas to life using Arduino

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804613177

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Lukas Kaul

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Selecting the Right Components for Your Robots

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Robotics and the Arduino Ecosystem FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Making Robots Perceive the World with Sensors

4. Chapter 3: Making Your Robot Move and Interact with the World with Actuators

5. Chapter 4: Selecting the Right Arduino Board for Your Project

6. Part 2: Writing Effective and Reliable Robot Programs for Arduino

7. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Robot Programming

8. Chapter 6: Understanding Object-Oriented Programming and Creating Arduino Libraries

9. Chapter 7: Testing and Debugging with the Arduino IDE

10. Part 3: Building the Hardware, Electronics, and UI of Your Robot

11. Chapter 8: Exploring Mechanical Design and the 3D Printing Toolchain

12. Chapter 9: Designing the Power System of Your Robot

13. Chapter 10: Working with Displays, LEDs, and Sound

14. Chapter 11: Adding Wireless Interfaces to Your Robot

15. Part 4: Advanced Example Projects to Put Your Robotic Skills into Action

16. Chapter 12: Building an Advanced Line-Following Robot Using a Camera

17. Chapter 13: Building a Self-Balancing, Radio-Controlled Telepresence Robot

18. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up, Next Steps, and a Look Ahead

19. Index

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Integrating the camera

Now, let us turn your mobile base into a robot with a camera that can follow a line. To that end, we need to integrate one more component – the camera. Cameras are not a very common sensor for DIY Arduino robots since they produce a lot of data that is difficult to process on a small microcontroller. To circumvent this problem, the PixyCam modules (https://pixycam.com/) do all the image processing on board and let the Arduino access very high-level information, such as the location of color patches or the beginning and end of a line in an image. A PixyCam makes for a very powerful line sensor, and you can use it in many other interesting projects, such as sorting machines, object trackers, or even an automatic Rubik’s Cube solver. We will be using Pixy2.1, but other versions will work just as well.