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Raspberry Pi Essentials
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Raspberry Pi Essentials

by Jack Creasey
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
212 pages
4h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Line-following robot

In the following image, you can see that the I2C PWM card is mounted externally on the Pi case due to a lack of holes in the case to allow for the servo leads:

Line-following robot

Note the following assembly details in the preceding image:

  • We used the Poweradd Pilot 2GS USB Powerbank to power the system which gave a ridiculously long runtime of about 12 hours for the Raspberry Pi alone, but increased the weight considerably.
  • The servo power is from a 4 x AA size battery holder mounted onto the frame.
  • The camera is mounted through a hole in the tray with two foam washers allowing easy extraction from the robot.
  • The shutdown and start/pause switches and ...
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