TheBotThoughtWorks

In memory of...

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.

- Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013

Demo Video

Go on RasPi

➢ Concurrency vs Parallelism – Goroutines

➢ Cross Compilation

➢ To develop libraries for RasPi in Golang

➢ To establish a platform for Open Hardware in Go

“Concurrency is about dealing with lots of things at once. Parallelism is about doing lots of things at once”

- Rob Pike

Concurrency in Go

How Go Supports Concurrency

● Concurrent execution (goroutines)

● Synchronization and messaging (channels)

● Multi-way concurrent control (select)

I2C Communication

➢ I2C is advantageous over individual GPIO communication since it uses only 2 wires

➢ Multiple devices are able to communicate with the controller on one bus

ICs interfaced with TheBot

➢ US-020 (Range-finder)

➢ DOF-10 ➔ LSM303 (Gyroscope)

➔ L3GD20 (Accelerator/Magnetic Sensor)

➔ BMP180 (Temperature Sensor)

➢ PCA9685 (PWM Generator)

Schematic

The Future of TheBot!

➢ TheBot sets the tune for Open Source Hardware exploration

➢ Serves as a platform for quick prototyping solutions using a modern language such as Golang

➢ Breaks the myth that hardware projects involve very high budgets

➢ Nurtures the culture of hardware projects in India and the joy of playing with robots

➢ Can be used as an awesome UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) for various applications where it may be inconvenient, dangerous, or impossible to have a human operator

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