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Make a Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot

Errata for Make a Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot

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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 45,
3rd paragraph

the text indicates that the battery for the pi should be 1.3 to 1.8 mAh. This is obviously incorrect. The battery on the next page shows a typical 1300 mAh LiPo battery with a typical capacity of 1300 mAh. This is not really a big deal, since there is no battery available with the tiny capacity indicated in the text.
Overall the book is interesting and may be useful. I don't have the skill to build all the stuff in the book, but I would like to get a small robot kit I could tinker with. Any suggestions?
BTW, where do I download all the code for the book??
Thanks Bob Berman

Bob Berman  Jun 01, 2016 
PDF Page 96
Third sentence from top

"Add a hashtag to the ..." should be "Add a hash to the..."

Geoffrey Mickleson  Oct 15, 2015 
Printed Page 98
6th para

Retyped the whole script and ran it., but although it did open the file "locations.csv", it did not write anything to the file - just left it blank. GPS works OK as per the table in page 97 which updates regularly

ken dias  May 30, 2017 
Printed Page 98
6

not working

Anonymous  May 31, 2017 
PDF Page 121
Top paragraph

Change language for clarity;
"... just add the following line to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit:

Geoffrey Mickleson  Oct 15, 2015 
PDF, ePub Page 123
The section "Live camera feed"

I wasn't able to get the rtsp stream working with the instructions in the text. However, I was able to get a different type of video stream working following the instructions here: http://pi.gbaman.info/?p=150

Thomas Weisbach  Mar 05, 2015