Dexter Industries’ GoPiGo is a great robotics kit for the Pi. They’ve done several tutorials based on the kit, but this one caught my eye. This code teaches the robot how to be ‘autonomous’ to a certain extent. It allows the robot to keep moving and avoid objects by ‘looking’ left and right and then choosing the correct direction to go according to whether it detects an object in that direction. Take a look at the tutorial here or watch the video below.
A good starter project.
I would like to see bigger chassis in the EU/GB Market so carry more sensors,camera and perhaps a small notebook for video processing(i.e OpenCV). Ideally wheels with encoders……and not too expensive. I think I must dream on for a while.