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PiBot: Build Your Own Raspberry Pi Powered Robot (Udemy.com)

A step-by-step guide to building your own small, mobile robot with a Raspberry Pi minicomputer.

3.8
44 reviews

Created by: Wolf Donat

Last updated July 2015

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What you will learn

  • By the end of this course, youi will have the knowledge necessary to construct a small, mobile robot with a Raspberry Pi brain

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  • Last updatedJuly 2015earlier than 99% of them

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Course Description

Since the Raspberry Pi was released in 2012, it has changed the game for both professionals and hobbyists alike. Its small size (about the size of a credit card) and low price have made it a popular alternative to the Arduino microprocessor for projects ranging from home automation to web servers to mobile image processing. Its ARM processor allows it to run a version of Debian Linux, and it can be configured to work with the physical world via onboard GPIO pins and optional extra equipment. The newest version can even run both Windows 10 and a full Ubuntu distribution.

PiBot: Build Your Own Raspberry Pi Powered Robot, is meant to be a companion course to the bestselling book of the same name on Amazon. Together with the book, students will be taken step-by-step through the process of building one, from installing the libraries needed to access the GPIO pins to configuring a wireless adapter to some suggestions (not explicit instructions) on how to construct the bot's body. When you have finished, you will have a working robot that you can log into and control remotely via command line, with the possibility of using a shell or a Python script. All course participants will receive an electronic copy of the book to go along with the course. The newest updated version of the course includes information regarding the Raspberry Pi version 2 and how to interact with servos using a different library, PiGPIO.

If you would like to do something impressive with your Pi, but learn better from seeing and hearing rather than reading, this course is for you!

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Instructor Details

Wolf Donat

Hi, I'm Wolf. I'm a computer engineer who specializes in robotics, computer vision, and embedded systems. I am a huge fan of the Raspberry Pi minicomputer because of the versatility and power that it packs into an extremely inexpensive package, making it accessible to nearly everybody who wants to learn. I've worked with it as both a professional and a hobbyist, and I really enjoy teaching others to use it.

I've written more than a few books and created a few courses, and I've received funding in the past from NASA for some work in autonomous submersibles. Try out the Raspberry Pi with me - I think you'll be glad you did!

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By Antonio Michua Camarillo on 12/30/2025

Curso rapido y bueno

By Andrew Williams on 8/10/2022

this course has enough written resources to permit building a project within a few evenings. Thanks for the extra effort in making the write ups.

By Peter Walker on 6/20/2016

The course was for an older outdated version of the Raspberry Pi product and has not been updated for the new version.

By Philip Zygmant on 5/29/2016

Screen not showing the top line properly, i have changed the orientation of the screen to portrait to see if this corrects the problem. Also it has not been updated to the recent RaspberryPi.

By Elisa Schroeder on 5/6/2016

This course is a great first robot project, but, I can see if you've never played with a breadboard or electrical components you might be a little lost.

By Valentin S Noa III on 9/13/2015

I have taken better courses, but I believe this course was an intro to raspberry Pi "Pi Bot". That being said, only just enough information to put the "Pi Bot" together, but not enough information to complete a working "Pi Bot". I gave 3 stars for providing enough information to get started with and to research the rest of what I need to complete the "Pi Bot" on my own. And by doing this on my own will help me learn the raspberry Pi by doing. Thank you Wolf Donat, I appreciate the information you provided.

By Ade Oduye on 7/14/2015

I was expecting a more detailed step by step procedure for a complete beginner

By Celia Ascenso on 2/26/2015

Thank you, now I have the tools to start experimenting with basic robotics, and go forward from there. The book downlod is a plus!

By Ahmad Alfesany Almazi on 4/4/2014

Learn Pi easily and fun to learn.

By LarryB on 3/1/2014

Very nice short introduction on how to get a Raspberry Pi going and attached to external devices. Author presented the materials as expected. I wish he had taken it a little further and showed a working Bot and the interface. The only downside was the audio level and background noise. Would be nice if it was recorded at a high level. A fun course otherwise.

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