Learn to build your own mobile robot using a Raspberry Pi in this comprehensive course. Perfect for beginners and enthusiasts alike.
This course is all about creating your very own mobile robot using a Raspberry Pi! You'll learn the ins and outs of setting it up, from the software part to putting the robot together. Perfect for visually learners!
A step-by-step guide to building your own small, mobile robot with a Raspberry Pi minicomputer.
Since the Raspberry Pi was released in 2012, it has changed the game for both professionals and hobbyists alike. Its small size (about the size of a credit card) and low price have made it a popular alternative to the Arduino microprocessor for projects ranging from home automation to web servers to mobile image processing. Its ARM processor allows it to run a version of Debian Linux, and it can be configured to work with the physical world via onboard GPIO pins and optional extra equipment. The newest version can even run both Windows 10 and a full Ubuntu distribution.
PiBot: Build Your Own Raspberry Pi Powered Robot, is meant to be a companion course to the bestselling book of the same name on Amazon. Together with the book, students will be taken step-by-step through the process of building one, from installing the libraries needed to access the GPIO pins to configuring a wireless adapter to some suggestions (not explicit instructions) on how to construct the bot's body. When you have finished, you will have a working robot that you can log into and control remotely via command line, with the possibility of using a shell or a Python script. All course participants will receive an electronic copy of the book to go along with the course. The newest updated version of the course includes information regarding the Raspberry Pi version 2 and how to interact with servos using a different library, PiGPIO.
If you would like to do something impressive with your Pi, but learn better from seeing and hearing rather than reading, this course is for you!
By the end of this course, youi will have the knowledge necessary to construct a small, mobile robot with a Raspberry Pi brain
9 Lectures
Hi, I'm Wolf. I'm a computer engineer who specializes in robotics, computer vision, and embedded systems. I am a huge fan of the Raspberry Pi minicomputer because of the versatility and power that it packs into an extremely inexpensive package, making it accessible to nearly everybody who wants to learn. I've worked with it as both a professional and a...
The source description for this course was very misleading. This is a "Beginners" course only! Having already been using a Pi3 and Pi4 as well as a working knowledge of the Python programming language I learned very little new information that I could have gotten elsewhere. There were *some* tiny tidbits that sort of pointed me in the right direction, but by no means did I find it overly informative or up to date with the current level of this technology.
Advice on how to improve the course would be:
- Re-list this course as "Beginner" instead of "All Levels".
- Also be upfront about who this course is for and not make it sound as if it's a catch-all course that goes any further than the very barebones to get people with limited electronics and programming knowledge into this area of interest. Others will likely be disappointed.
- Take the time to add some basic info on the different types of servos and how they operate to allow students to work beyond the provided lessons.
- Instead of adding a PDF as a "patch" on how to program the servo functions in Python, create a new video lesson and include a review for those that are using a Pi2 and above.
- Grab a Pi 3 and Pi 4, etc. and update your lessons so that they match up with the current version of the Raspberry Pi to make it relevant to those that will want to get one and try this themselves using current-day versions of this technology.
As is, this is a neat tutorial, but not a full course as it has too many missing pieces to make it current and relevant today.
Easy to understandy
- Good for people with some electrical and computer experience
- Good intro of the Pi, setting up wireless access and remote login and example of basic actuator control
- Section 2, setting up the Pi was a bit too drawn out
- Good PDF summary as text reference
Q
The course was for an older outdated version of the Raspberry Pi product and has not been updated for the new version.
Screen not showing the top line properly, i have changed the orientation of the screen to portrait to see if this corrects the problem. Also it has not been updated to the recent RaspberryPi.
was not very instructional
This course is a great first robot project, but, I can see if you've never played with a breadboard or electrical components you might be a little lost.
Fun!
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Andrew W.
this course has enough written resources to permit building a project within a few evenings.
Thanks for the extra effort in making the write ups.