Step 8 – Attaching the camera mount, Raspberry Pi, and Adafruit servo board

The robot car is starting to look like a robot car. In this step, we will attach the camera mount (or the head of T.A.R.A.S) and Raspberry Pi.

We will start with Raspberry Pi. This is where we must be a little creative in how we mount Raspberry Pi and the Adafruit servo board to the chassis. The Adafruit servo board is an amazing little board, but the kit lacks the standoffs needed to keep part of the board from touching Raspberry Pi. I found it difficult to put an M3 bolt through the mounting holes on the board. My solution was to use 30 mm of female-to-male standoff to attach Raspberry Pi to the chassis and a 10 mm female-to-female standoff to separate Raspberry ...

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