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Pi Robot: What Do You Think?

dexterindustries

We prototyped up a Raspberry Pi Robot we're thinking about working on.  What do you think?

 

What do you think a Pi Robot absolutely needs?  We were thinking we need to add encoders, and maybe line-following sensors.  Anything else?

 

http://dexterindustries.com/GoPiGo/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GoPiGo_Rendering.png  http://www.dexterindustries.com/GoPiGo/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/GoPiGo_Proto-2.jpg

 

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  • Most of the Raspberry Pi robots I have seen could easily be done with just an Arduino. I am toying with the idea of making a soccer robot where the ball would be a bright, contrasting color, such as orange, and the goals would be marked by flashing IR lights. The robot would use the Raspberry Camera for blob tracking (mounted fixed, forward looking) to find the ball and an IR sensor (TSOP 1738) could be mounted on a servo to locate the goal. The raspbery then would need to calculate the angle between the two and postion itself to move/kick the ball into the goal. Just an idea now, but I think this would make better use of the Raspberry.

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  • Most of the Raspberry Pi robots I have seen could easily be done with just an Arduino. I am toying with the idea of making a soccer robot where the ball would be a bright, contrasting color, such as orange, and the goals would be marked by flashing IR lights. The robot would use the Raspberry Camera for blob tracking (mounted fixed, forward looking) to find the ball and an IR sensor (TSOP 1738) could be mounted on a servo to locate the goal. The raspbery then would need to calculate the angle between the two and postion itself to move/kick the ball into the goal. Just an idea now, but I think this would make better use of the Raspberry.

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