Phil05: A Raspberry Pi Robot

Video

Hardware

The hardware I used for this project is:

• Old motorized toy

• RaspberryPi 3 model b

• Lithium Battery Pack Expansion Board

• UltraSonic module hc-sr04

• L298 Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver (DC and Stepper Motors)

• Raspicam

• breadboard

• a bunch of wires

Software

The software runs on a Raspbian 8 (jessie). The code is developed in Nodejs, a promising, popular and fast serverside version of Javascript. It just contains two sub-projects:

• a manual driving via keyboard

• an autopilot test code using the sonar

Installation

git clone https://github.com/dynamick/phil05 cd phil05 sudo npm install

Make sure to have motion up and running so you could see what Raspicam is viewing in real-time.

Running

You could choose the manual driving mode launching:

sudo npm run manual

Or you could try the autopilot using:

sudo npm run autopilot

Or you could launch both on two consoles to ibrid command of your robot.