nschreiber0813 Contributor

Hi Mosmas. Nice bot.

You should know I love RPi. I actually own one. Unfortunately all the RPis I own are B+ but cool nice bot.

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dan3008

Wow

Wow, I wish I’d thourght of using  PI befor I commited to my arduino… I might have to use a pi in my second robot.

How long did it take to make?

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mosmas

PiBot-A with Model B+

Thanks for the feedback. With (only) little changes to the chassis it should work with Model B+ immediately.

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mosmas

Time to build

The most time consuming (about 20 hours?) task was to build the very compact chassis. (I’m not a mechanic and don’t have professional tools.) The software was easy to write. From installing the Pololu python library to making the bot some obstacle avoiding it took me 20 minutes Just a few lines of python code, see robot-rt.py in the tarball that can be downloaded from my website.

nschreiber0813 Contributor

No kidding I want one.

Where can I get one like seriously?

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mosmas

Want what?

Sorry - don’t know what you mean :o)

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lumi

Great project, klasse Arbeit

Great project, klasse Arbeit :-) I like the compact build with no wasted space.

I just checked your website and think you should write some of it here too, you know that besides me and a few other German speaking dudes the most of the guys here using google translate and that’s not really a reliable tool.

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nschreiber0813 Contributor

Sorry are these for sale?

Are these being sold?

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dan3008

Mosmas made it

Mosmas made this robot as a personal project (I am assuming, please corect me if i’m wrong). The best way to “get one” woud be to follow his build instructions on his blog (http://www.retas.de/thomas/raspberrypi/pibot-a/)

 

Allowing for google translate errors, I found the instructions amazingly complete and easy to follow.
Enjoy ;) 

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mosmas

Now I got it

No, it’s not for sale. I made it by myself. I published a very detailed description with lots of photos on my website, unfortunatelly it is in German, because my English is rather poor. Next weekend I will write some hints for those who want to make a replica on this page. For now maybe this may help to rate the efforts for building it:

1. The basic hardware (Raspberry Pi, Pololu module and motors) is plug & play.
2. The basic software (which makes the wheels rotate) is already part of the Pololu kit.
3. The additional software that I wrote is very simple and can be downloaded HERE
4. The actual construction described on my website is pretty difficile and you have to work very meticulously. See photos.
5. A complete shopping list for all parts is provided HERE

Summary: If you consider not to clone my very compact construction it should be rather easy to build a bot like this.