Build a small robot that follows a line drawn on the floor.
Detect obstacles ahead using an ultrasonic sensor on a servo.
Sense table or ledge edges to avoid the robot falling off.
Study the source code as a starting point for a Raspberry Pi Pico robotics project.
| chaka0101/picobot | 0xallam/my-recipe | 0xhassaan/nn-from-scratch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | 0 |
| Language | Python | Python | Python |
| Last pushed | — | 2022-11-22 | — |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | — |
| Setup difficulty | hard | moderate | moderate |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 2/5 | 4/5 |
| Audience | general | general | developer |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
README has no wiring diagram, installation steps, or flashing instructions, so setup requires reading the source directly.
PICOBOT is a small robot project built around a Raspberry Pi Pico, a low cost microcontroller board using the RP2040 chip. The physical robot is described as having three infrared sensors, an ultrasonic distance sensor mounted on a servo so it can be aimed in different directions, and four motors controlled through a motor driver board. According to the README, the robot's core abilities are line following, where it uses its sensors to track and stay on a line on the ground, collision or object detection using the ultrasonic sensor paired with the servo to sense obstacles ahead, and cliff or edge detection, presumably using the IR sensors to notice when the robot is about to drive off a ledge or table. The README is very short and does not go into how the code is organized, what libraries or frameworks it depends on, how to wire the hardware, or how to flash the code onto the Pico. It also does not describe an installation process, a license, or any usage instructions beyond the general description of what the robot can do. The author notes that more features are a possibility in the future, suggesting this is an early stage hobby robotics project rather than a finished or polished product. Because there is so little documentation available, anyone interested in building or running PICOBOT themselves would likely need to read through the source code directly to understand the wiring, the pin assignments, and how the line following, obstacle detection, and cliff detection behaviors are actually implemented in Python on the Pico.
A hobby robot built on a Raspberry Pi Pico that can follow lines, detect obstacles, and sense ledges using IR and ultrasonic sensors.
Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, Raspberry Pi Pico, RP2040.
Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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