This week, I worked on integration. I wired up the motors to the motor driver and the motor driver to the power bank and Raspberry Pi. I also wired up the IR sensor and added test code for all of these components. Here’s a picture! You can’t tell, but the motor is turning. We will be using lgpio (Python) as our GPIO library. After testing, I am concerned that the motors and frames we have are cheap and flimsy. Hopefully they last the duration of the project…
I am still on schedule. My ne
xt steps will be testing the motor encoders and the Raspberry Pi camera. The motor encoders aren’t yet attached to the frame, but I don’t anticipate that the encoders will require much code once they are attached. After I figure out the camera, I’ll write some basic target detection code.