Legged Pi: A walking biped Raspberry Pi robot
Ingredients: Pi Bundle: Raspberry Pi Model A USB Wifi dongle 8GB SD Card running Raspbian Servos: Pololu Maestro 6 channel servo controller 6 mid-size servos Power: 7.2V 1300mAh 2S Lipo battery for the servos 5V 1A NiCD power bank for the Pi UBEC voltage down converter Battery wires & connectors…
Raspberry Pi + Pololu Maestro + Python3 + Tornado + Servo Control Part 1
This tutorial will show you how to have the basic servo control using Raspberry Pi and Pololu Maestro. The implementation of the following instruction can be used for hand gripper, robot leg, or pan/tilt camera. Hardware list: Raspberry Pi Model A 256MB Pololu Maestro USB 6-Channel Servo Controller MG946R Towardpro…
Boot into Raspberry Pi with USB Serial Console Cable
Ethernet port does not exist on Raspberry Pi Model A. And when you got no monitor screen to connect to, configuring your headless Pi may not be possible. Your only option would be to connect to your Pi from a laptop via a console cable. For this exercise you are…
Raspberry Pi: Which OS can you run on Pi?
Pi Operating systems you can try as of early 2015 are as follows. General Purpose Raspbian ArchLinux (ARM edition) PiDora RiscOS Android Snappy Ubuntu Core Windows 10 (IoT) Media Center RaspBMC OpenELEC Rasplex Xbian Special Purpose RetroPie Other Firefox OS Plan9
Robot Project Day 7 – Testing Your Robot
Previous: Day 6 – Arduino Sketch for Robot Control To recap our connections will roughly look like this: Your client PC -> Your Raspbery Pi (which contains Arduino Sketch) -> Motor Controller via USB cable -> 4 Servo Motors First, you need to know if you get a response from…