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Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico

When you plan, you create the best chance for a mission’s success. We want to build robots in an achievable way. Let’s start with a plan in mind! We’ll use this plan to explore why Raspberry Pi Pico is a great fit for this and make a shopping list!

In this chapter, you’ll learn about Raspberry Pi Pico’s capabilities. You’ll discover CircuitPython and understand why it is a great language for Raspberry Pi Pico. Additionally, we’ll plan a robot design and understand the trade-offs to make choices about the robot early in the project. We’ll check that our robot fits together, working out the parts and tools you’ll need with suggestions on how to get them.

At the end of the chapter, you’ll have both a plan ...

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