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Add support for Dexter Industries robots #3

Open shawaj opened 5 years ago

shawaj commented 5 years ago

Add support for Dexter Industries robots

ilyastrodubtsev commented 5 years ago

The main equipment of the GoPiGo robot from the company Dexter Industries consists of:

Now pibot can manage a fully assembled this starter kit: link

GoPiGo can be compatible with our Pibot because: -In the presented sets are used the same gear motors 3-6V -identical wheels -identical design of the turning mechanism As we can see, this is very similar constructions.

There are some minor differences: -The design of the rear wheel (does not affect the work and need only for the stability of the structure) -Connecting motors using specially designed cables to GoPiGo (should not be a problem)

The GoPiGo robot connects to your computer via wifi and can be controlled by the user using commands. Commands can be sent in 3 ways:

shawaj commented 5 years ago

@ilyastrodubtsev I'm copying in @CleoQc from Dexter Industries

ilyastrodubtsev commented 5 years ago

@shawaj I didn't quite understand. Do you need anymore comments from me?

shawaj commented 5 years ago

@ilyastrodubtsev well we just need to build in the support with easy selection of the model if that makes sense

ilyastrodubtsev commented 5 years ago

GoPiGo and PiBot analysis -Servo: Servo support is available both in the GoPiGo project and in ours.

-Distance sensor: Support is available both in the GoPiGo project and in ours.

-Raspberry Pi Camera: Support is available both in the GoPiGo project and in ours.

-Infrared Receivers: Support is available both in the GoPiGo project and in ours.

-Speakers: Support is available both in the GoPiGo project and in ours.

-Microphone: I did not find the support of the microphone in GoPiGo

-Temperature sensor, Humidity & Pressure Sensor: GoPiGo has a temperature sensor, as I understand it, we also have its support implied, but could i not understand where it connects to the board. Tell me.

-IMU: I did not find support for this sensor on PiBot. But really not sure if we need it.

-PIR Motion Sensor: This sensor is also not on the PiBot.

-Light Sensors: I found this sensor on our device. But it is possible to provide, for example, for automatic turning on of lamps in the dark.

-Line Followers: GoPiGo robots can ride a drawn line on the floor. I'm also not sure that we need this sensor.

-Loudness Sensors: I did not find this sensor in our robot. But he could be used.

-Buzzers: You can add a buzzer for a fee for sound identification of any events.

-Buttons and LEDs: We can provide the ability to connect additional buttons and LEDs. On them, users could write their own scripts and use them.

CleoQc commented 5 years ago

Wow, I see that I was tagged, but somehow I missed it.

GoPiGo also has encoders, which I'm not seeing in your list. The distance sensor is laser-based, not ultrasonic. (not sure about your robot, just pointing it out)

No microphone on the GoPiGo

Temperature/Humidity/Pressure sensor uses a grove I2C connector

There's also a Light & Color sensor.