bloudman
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Motor shield+ sensor is it possible ?

Sat Jan 14, 2017 2:33 pm

Hi everybody!

I would like to build my own robot with my raspberry pi.
To achieve that I will need:
-> Compass https://www.amazon.fr/SunFounder-Digita ... +RASPBERRY to make the robot following a direction

-> Ultrasonic sensor: https://www.amazon.fr/ultrasonic-ultras ... e+distance to detect obstacles

-> Adafruit motor hat to control my 2 DC Motors

-> Pi cam to do some opencv calculation.

I have already all this sensor exept the compass motors and a wood base.

My question is that I don't know if it is possible to combine all this sensor ?
I am not sure about the adafruit motor hat wich seem to use every pin (i'm not sure at all)

If it is not possible maybe it is more simple to go with a raspberry pi for camera control and network and an arduino ? (but it is a more complicated architecture and will use more power so if I can avoid that :) )

Thanks by advance ! :) I'm a little bit lost with all this sensor ^^'

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Gert van Loo
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Re: Motor shield+ sensor is it possible ?

Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:56 pm

Something like this: http://www.gertbot.com/toaste.html
And before you ask: No I did not find the time to get the ultra-sonics working, only the camera.
But I had remote control over WIFI.

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