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  • Let's take a tour of all of the parts that make up the robot.

  • We'll start with the laser-etched, Ponoko.com wood sheet of the seven parts.

  • As you can see, it comes laser-cut and stuck together with sticky tape.

  • Here's the back side of the laser-cut sheet. Take the tape off, and you can see

  • the seven individual pieces. Some of the small bits will come back with

  • the tape. That's OK.

  • Now, take the support frame off, and here are the seven pieces:

  • you've got the two wheels; the bottom base;

  • the two sides; the top base;

  • and the front piece. At this point, the backing will have tape

  • on it. You can choose to remove it,

  • but I would actually suggest you leave it. When the laser cuts the wood,

  • sometimes the laser cuts it a little bit big or a little bit small.

  • Keeping the tape on the back actually allows us to have a tighter tolerance.

  • You're also going to need two continuous rotation servos, just like these two.

  • Servos come with a lot of accoutrements. Here you can see two little screws,

  • a plastic attachment piece, and a large screw.

  • The large screw is used for the axle. The two small screws are used

  • to attach the accoutrement to the wood. There's a digital switch to act as a bump

  • sensor. Flip the switch and you'll get a command.

  • Wires: three female-female - one red, one black,

  • one white; and six male to female - two black, two red,

  • two white. The robot rides on two big wheels,

  • but it needs something to counter-balance those wheels.

  • We use a small ball bearing in a little enclosure. The Raspberry Pi is attached with four stand-offs

  • and eight screws. To drive the robot around, get an XBox 360

  • USB controller.

  • Now we start assembly. Take the black piece from the servo,

  • and connect it with the wood screws onto the wheel, just like this.

  • Do this two times, one for each wheel. Put the servos into the wood side pieces.

  • Make sure that the rotating part of the servo faces out and back, just like in the picture.

  • Do this twice - one for each side, and you can use the wood screws

  • in order to secure the servo to the side. Here are both servos inside each of the side

  • pieces. Place the wheel with the plastic piece

  • onto the servo head. You're gonna do this for both sides.

  • Take the long screw that comes with the servos, and attach the wheel to the servo.

  • Take the ball bearing, the two bolts, and the nuts that come along with it,

  • and attach the ball bearing to the bottom of the bottom piece.

  • Flip the bottom piece over and attach the nuts to the bolts.

  • Take the front piece and put the switch onto the front side of the front piece.

  • Flip over the front piece and the switch, and attach the nuts to the bolts.

  • For the top piece, take the stand-offs, the Raspbery Pi, and the screws,

  • and put a screw in the bottom of the top piece, a stand-off on top of that,

  • the Raspberry Pi on top of that, and then another screw into the stand-off

  • and the Raspberry Pi. Do that four times.

  • When screwing the bolts into the stand-offs, DO NOT over-tighten.

  • You won't want to crack the Raspberry Pi. In addition, things might not line up perfectly.

  • Get them as best as you can. Now all the parts are ready!

  • Lay them out like this, and you're gonna complete final assembly of

  • the robot frame.

  • Attach the side with the servo and the wheel to the base.

  • Attach the top to the wheel with the servo and the side.

  • Attach the other side. Now you'll have all four sides connected.

  • Now put the front with the switch onto the front of the robot.

  • Your build is done.

  • Now let's see the electronics. Connect male to female black, red, and white

  • wires with the male side of the PWM cable coming

  • out of each of the servos, just like this.

  • Make sure to connect white to white, red to red, black to black.

  • Now let's do the switch. Connect the white side to the side where the

  • joint of the switch is, black to the middle, and red to the other

  • side. You may need to turn the cables a little bit

  • to get them to seat onto the switch.

  • Let's get the wires out of the way. We route them underneath the top piece,

  • through the front and the top piece. The PWM cables have some slack.

  • Go ahead and pull them or push them so they look about even.

  • Grab the XBox 360 controller, ensure the intermediate connection is connected,

  • take the USB end of the XBox 360 controller, and plug it into one of the USB ports on the

  • Raspberry Pi 2.

  • Your robot kit is assembled! Congratulations!

  • Let's get programming. The robot can work in two different ways:

  • you can plug the USB XBox 360 controller right into the robot

  • and drive the robot around, or you can plug the joystick into the same

  • robot code that runs on a Windows 10 desktop PC,

  • and control the robot over networking. The robot can move forward,

  • backward, turn left,

  • turn right, turn left and go forward,

  • turn right and go forward, turn left and go backward,

  • turn right and go backward. Through the power of the Universal Windows

  • platform, you can take the exact same code and run it

  • on your PC, as well as on the Raspberry Pi 2.

  • Wow! The power of Windows 10!

  • Thanks for building the kit, watching this video,

  • and starting with Windows 10 and the Raspberry Pi 2.

  • Feel free to change the mechanical, the electrical, the software design,

  • and make this project your own. And definitely tweet about it at #MakeInventDo.

  • Welcome to the Internet of Things!

Let's take a tour of all of the parts that make up the robot.

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