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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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Building a six-legged Pi-Bug robot

Controlling motors is very useful for creating vehicle-like robots, but creating more naturally behaving robot components (such as servos) can provide excellent results. There are many creative designs of insect-like robots, or even biped designs (with humanoid-like legs) that use servos to provide natural joint movements. The design in this example uses three servos, but these principles and concepts can be easily applied to far more complex designs, to control legs/arms that use multiple servos. The Pi-Bug robot is shown in the following photo:

The six-legged Pi-Bug robot uses a servo driver to control ...
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