Planning your next robot

In Chapter 1, Planning a Robot with Raspberry Pi Pico, we saw a few styles under the What style of robot is suitable? section. Now, inviting a greater level of imagination, let’s revisit how different a robot can be.

Form, shape, and chassis

We’ll start by considering the styles from Chapter 1 again and how you might get there:

Figure 14.9 – Different robot styles

The preceding figure shows four styles of robots. We can now imagine more variations on these:

1. A larger wheeled platform to hold more sensors and electronics, perhaps with a more interesting wheel arrangement.
2. A hexapod robot with six legs – for exploring walking and gaits. This will use lots of servo motors.
3. A robot arm, such as the MeArm mentioned previously. These can be servo motor-based or stepper motor-based.
4. A quadcopter drone is super-light, but involves more interesting IMU and PID use.

The following diagram...