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BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists

You're reading from   BeagleBone: Creative Projects for Hobbyists Build amazing BeagleBone projects and maximize your skills with projects that walk, talk, and fly!

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Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395656
Length 1020 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodolfo Giometti Rodolfo Giometti
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Charles A. Hamilton Charles A. Hamilton
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Chapter 6. A Robot that Can Sail

You've built robots that can navigate on land; now let's look at some amazingly cool possibilities for utilizing the tools to build some robots that dazzle the imagination. You don't want to limit your robotic possibilities to just walking or rolling. You might want your robot to sail. In this chapter, you'll see how to build a robot that can sail the open sea, or at least your local park's pond.

In this chapter, you will build the basic sailing platform. To do this, you will learn the following:

  • Using the BeagleBone Black to control servos directly
  • Communicating with your platform via long range RF signals so that you can retain control of your robotic sailboat

The BeagleBone Black and robots that can sail

Now that you've discovered that the BeagleBone Black can guide platforms that can move on land, let's turn to a completely different type of mobile platform, one that can sail. In this section, you'll discover...

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