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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition
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Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition

by Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Tim Cox
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
552 pages
13h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tethered or untethered robots

An important choice when designing your own Rover-Pi robot is to decide if you want to make it fully self-contained, or if you are happy to have a tether (a long control/power cable connected to the Rover-Pi). Using a tether, you can keep the weight of the Rover-Pi robot down, which means the small motors will be able to move the unit with ease. This will allow you to keep the Raspberry Pi separate from the main unit so that it can remain connected to a screen and keyboard for easy programming and debugging. The main disadvantage is that you will need a long, umbilical-like connection to your Rover-Pi robot (with a wire for each control signal) that may impede its movement. However, as we will see later, you ...

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