guys i'm working on a segway style balancing robot as a project for college with raspberry pi. i'm pretty clueless about what to do. NEED HELP ASAP!!!

Hi Clint,

Your block diagram looks good.

You could use a ChipKit Pi for the microprocessor board as this card will connect directly to your Raspberry Pi.

There are many 2 wheel balancing robot projects for arduino platforms that could be easily ported to the ChipKit Pi.

Here are a couple of links to get started:

Franko – Arduino Self Balancing Robot | Luka Gabric

http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Wheel-Self-Balancing-Robot-by-using-Arduino-and-/

thank you very much Mr.Douglas   the chipkit pi is something totally new to me right now. let me check out your links and get back to you

sir so are you telling me that using the chipkit, i can directly use the code and sensors used in an adruino project??

it is a PIC Microchip not an ATMEGA328 so it is not code compatible. It is more hardware compatible and is designed to work with the PI

The GERTBOARD is an other alternative that works with the PI and IS an Arduino Code compatible controller so you should be able to use existing Arduino software if so desired

Regards

Peter

Actually I believe ChipKit Pi is perfectly source code and hardware compatible with arduinos. It does use a much faster cpu than the original arduino, but it comes with a compiler that will seamlessly accept arduino source code and convert it to run properly on the ChipKit Pi. The development environment for ChipKit Pi runs on the Raspberry Pi and is like a normal arduino development environment.

Well then I stand corrected and given the performance benefits this sounds like a good choice

guys i have a problem. ill have to use a separate PIC and design a board around it and connect it to the pi. my teacher wont allow me to use a ready made board like the chipkit pi. which i believe is a huge bummer ill have to first try this and only if i end up with a problem can i opt the chipkit. thank you Mr.Douglas and Mr.Peter for the help. i'd be more than happy if you guys could help me in the future too with suggestions and such. what i need right now is probably a " raspberry pi based balancing surveillance robot for dummies"