The Raspberry Pico is a new microcontroller launched in February 2021. The community was excited about this new board, and several people started amazing projects. I grabbed two boards early on, and while still working on my Arduino based robot, did the usual blinking led and potentiometer tutorials. For simplicity, I used the MicroPython SDK, which is set up in minutes and gives you an interactive Python shell directly on the Pico.
When you build your own robot, you need to make two essential decisions: Its hardware and software. My background is software development, so I will start to investigate the design questions for my robot from that direction as well.
Building a Robot from scratch involves choosing the right software and hardware. In the previous article, I explained the various libraries that help the robot with moving, detecting, navigating and controlling. Now this article explains the hardware side: The computers, the motors, the sensors with which to equip the robot. As in my previous article, this list is in all means not exhaustive, but lists components that I found during my research and find interesting to keep them here.
Projects should be fun, entertaining and educating. In the past year, my projects were in two areas: DevOps with Ansible, Nomad and Kubernetes. Web Application Development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript frameworks. For some time, another interesting area has been on my mind: Robots. It’s amazing what other enthusiast created, its inspiring to watch a self-made, wheeled robot with a laser sensor to drive around and explore its surroundings.
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