Build a Wireless Hot-spot Access Point with Raspberry Pi 2
Why you want a Pi 2 hot spot? To extend the range of your current wifi router Direct access to your Pi robot without waiting for a router to manage your connections. 1-to-1 is obviously faster then 1-to 1-to-1. To share Pi’s Internet connection with multiple devices Hardware list: Raspberry…
Install USB Wifi Dongle Realtek 8188 Driver on Raspbery Pi 2
Regardless of the dongle manufacturer, any wifi dongle that uses Realtek 8188 chip is known to be fast and reliable. However Raspbian does not have a native support out-of-the-box. We need to manually install the driver before we can use it. Update your Rasbpian: sudo apt-get update (Optional) If you…
Robot Project Day 10 – Control Interfaces
Previous: Day 9 – Advance: Hand Gripper Everybody is on the net, and that can include your robot. One easiest method to control your robot is via a client computer’s web browser. Because Raspbian can run web servers like Apache, Node, or Tornado, you can serve a web page and create communication…
Robot Project Day 9 – Advance: Hand Gripper
After adding a nice tilt servo base, you can attach a camera or a hand gripper. There are a few version of the hand gripper for a mid-size servo. Make sure it is light enough to be attached to an existing robot-car chassis. Two basic movements of the servo are basically: grip…
Robot Project Day 8 – Tilt servo for hand gripper (claw)
After testing all the basic functions of a robot in previous post, a nice additional feature of a robot is to include a hand gripper. You can purchase a pan & tilt kit for standard servo and a hand gripper kit which you can combine to create a nice pick-grip-release motions. For hand…