{"id":13287,"date":"2015-08-31T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T08:48:01","slug":"programming-autonomy-with-the-raspberry-pi-and-the-gopigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13287","title":{"rendered":"Programming autonomy with the Raspberry Pi and the GoPiGo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/gopigo\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/clients.nav.co\/dexter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-15-at-12.00.54-PM-e1434405814753.png?resize=455%2C371\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexterindustries.com\/gopigo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dexter Industries&#8217; GoPiGo<\/a>\u00a0is a great robotics kit for the Pi. They&#8217;ve done several tutorials based on the kit, but <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonprogramming.net\/programming-autonomous-robot-gopigo-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> caught my eye. This\u00a0code teaches the robot how to be &#8216;autonomous&#8217; to a certain extent. It allows the robot to keep moving and avoid objects by &#8216;looking&#8217; left and right and then choosing the correct direction to go according to whether it detects an object in that direction. <a href=\"http:\/\/pythonprogramming.net\/programming-autonomous-robot-gopigo-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the tutorial here<\/a> or watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Programming Autonomy - Robotics with Python Raspberry Pi and GoPiGo p.6\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcnVBo3vW8Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dexter Industries&#8217; GoPiGo\u00a0is a great robotics kit for the Pi. 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It allows the robot&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13287\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,62,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics","category-sensors","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Programming autonomy with the Raspberry Pi and the GoPiGo - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13287\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Programming autonomy with the Raspberry Pi and the GoPiGo - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dexter Industries&#8217; GoPiGo\u00a0is a great robotics kit for the Pi. 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