November 2017
Beginner
210 pages
4h 41m
English
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Building a Mini Round Robot with Original ESP8266
In this chapter, you will learn how to build a two-wheeled mini round robot with the ESP8266 ESP-01 board. As you know, the nifty ESP8266 ESP01 module can handle all the necessary things related to Wi-Fi networking. The Arduino works as the main microcomputer board and the ESP01 works as a Wi-Fi shield for Arduino.
In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:
- Assembling a Mini 3-Layer Round Robot chassis kit
- Connecting ESP8266 ESP-01 with Arduino
- Using logic level converter between ESP8266 ESP-01 and Arduino
- Connecting motors with motor driver
- Connecting motor driver board with Arduino
- Power supply with battery packs (9V and 4xAA)
- Building/writing a control app with Blynk
- Moving ...