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PenguinPi
This robotic platform developed by Professor Peter Corke & QUT has been used to in robotics courses across Australia. The Penguin Pi couples a proven mobility platform with a Raspberry Pi and software resources. Supported by Cirrus Robotics this platform makes the perfect introduction to robotics for high school or undergraduate students.
Software Resources
Penguin Pi software can be installed/updated from the Cirrus Robotics repositories by following these steps:
1. Within a terminal, run the following command to import our public GPG key from hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 24AB4EF02. Create the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cirrusrobotics.list list file
sudo echo "deb [arch=armhf] http://packages.cirrusrobotics.com.au stretch main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cirrusrobotics.list3. Run the following command to update the list of available packages
sudo apt-get update4. Finally, install the python bindings, webserver and examples
sudo apt install python-penguin-pi penguin-webserver penguin-examples
Note: Other penguin pi software is available from this repository.
Technical Specifications
| Item | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 3B+ | 1 |
| Raspberry Pi Camera | 1 |
| Edixmax Wifi Dongle | 1 |
| DC Motor with Encoder | 2 |
| Control Board with LCD | 2 |
| 3.3Ah Li-ion Battery | 1 |
| Smart charger | 1 |