Preface
So you want to build a robot.
Like many others before you, you saw the introduction of the Raspberry Pi minicomputer as a milestone in not just portable computing technology, but mobile robotic technology. After all, here was a device the size of a credit card, with a processor equivalent to a Pentium III. Here was a device about the same size as an Arduino board, but capable of HD 1080p graphics. Here was a 700MHz CPU, with a set of 26 GPIO pins that could connect it to the outside world. Here, in a nutshell, was a robotic brain.
Unfortunately, it probably didn’t take you very long to figure out that calling a computer a robotic brain and making it a robotic brain are two very, very different things. Sure, you can plug the Pi into your ...
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