4tronix Picon Plus
Les Pounder needs to build a robot to help during social isolation. But can he build a robot butler to deliver more Pis to his table?
Les Pounder
IN BRIEF
An advanced motor controller for the Raspberry Pi that provides control over four motors, a single power source for the Raspberry Pi and the board. It enables control of up to four servo motors at once. Controlled over I2C and with a powerful Python 3 library, multiple boards can be stacked to control up to 16 motors independently.
Advanced robotics projects with the Raspberry Pi need a little more power than others. We need bigger motors, and more of them. We need servos to control steering and inputs to simplify sensors such as ultrasonic and IR. The 4tronix Picon Plus fills this void and offers a little extra for £30.