alright so you're ready to get a dope i go i'm gonna be putting links in the
description for basically all of the parts that you're going to need as well
as run through the initial setup process and stuff for you guys so uh you there's
basically two major options here you can either get like the base kit and then
pieced together the rest of the stuff that you need for your go kygo or you
can buy everything all together now you'll save yourself about fifty dollars
if you piece it together and then basically anything if you already have
say raspberry pi or some of the other parts you'll save yourself even more
money so to me it's better to get the base kit and then piece it together but
you can do what you want the simplest option is of course just buy the whole
kit but fifty dollars is a little bit extra if you ask me that's a missile
launcher right there
so anyway i'll put links in the description for all the parts that we're
going to be talking about here they are amazon affiliate link so if you use them
you're supporting me in the channel so thanks a lot for anybody who does
actually use them so first of all it the go-go's made by Dexter industries and we
can come to their website click on robots here and then click the go kygo
so scrolling down you'll see they offer base kit and a starter kit and also a
classroom kit but we're not worried about the classroom kit so the starter
kit is two hundred dollars versus the base kit is ninety dollars so you can
get this and it comes with basically it comes with a raspberry pi model b plus
the base kit the servo package and a distance sensor so there's that and
website hit my back button so you can get that or you can get the base Kate
pieces together and save yourself a little bit more money so anyways
continuing along here
step one would be the go kygo base kit so you can get this here or through
Dexter industries com again if you want to support me in the channel you get
here it's the same price will really change anything it's actually even sold
by Dexter industries so anyways there's that so you'll need the base kit after
that you're gonna need a raspberry pi
now you can either get model b or the model b plus i believe you could get
away with the raspberry pi 2 but you might have to add some code in so I'm
not
positive how easy that would be for some of you so if you want to stay safe i
would either get the beer the b+ next up you need a microSD card now their image
is a 4 gigabyte ish image but as you may or may not know four gigabytes does not
mean four gigabytes it means about 3.6 or so so home if you want to be safe I
would get at least eight gigabytes AK by SD card is four dollars so might as well
go with the eight you can find SD card i formatted one of my four gigabytes and I
did not have enough space for their little custom image so just keep that in
mind so i would get at least eight i usually get 16 though and 16 is two
dollars more
so there's that as you need SD card and then finally the other must have is the
edimax Wi-Fi adapter so these are the main things that you'll need the base
kit Raspberry Pi SD card for the Raspberry Pi and an air max Wi-Fi
adapter one thing to note if you get the B+ or later Raspberry Pi you'll need to
have an SD card that's actually like it's a SD adapter for a microSD card
ok so keep that in mind because the b+ and later only take micro SD cards
it saves a lot of space and also on the older models the sdcard really stuck out
and it was just really easy to break it so it's a good idea to just go ahead and
get the microsd so you can be compatible with all the pies
moving right along that was the edimax Wi-Fi adapter you'll need that then you
have a distance sensor now you get this distance sensor from two places this is
the basic distance sensor as you'll see there's no uh nope cords here so if you
don't have any jumper cables or jumper wires what you're going to want to do
probably a splurge for the distance sensor that Dexter industry cells it's
1999 so it's considerably more than the basic distance sensor does the exact
same thing but it's a little it has like a little plug here it comes with the
cord that you need that has you know the the the ground the trigger the sensor
and the power and so it's just really easy but if you have some jumper cables
around I would just go with this one is way cheaper but choose whichever one you
want
they don't sell this one on amazon so you have to get it through Dexter
industries
next up raspberry pi camera module this is so your robot can see so for example
here we have a me doing my lovely tutorial right now with my coffee that's
on on me at the moment it so i might pass out at any moment anyway so you got
this this is so you can stream and see what your pie is doing and all that so
that's really useful to have also in the later tutorials we're gonna be working
with opencv so this is just so you can see what your robot sees but with opencv
that all be kind of behind the scenes you don't really have to worry about
that but the camera modules really cool to have it is a mirror like 25 $23 free
shipping so cheap and it's really cool to have so i would highly recommend the
camera module if you don't already have one anyways moving right along the servo
package this is so basically you have it here you can also see it on my go kygo
here on the screen
this is so you can connect your distance sensor and your camera to the servo and
then you can kind of you can swivel swivel swivel the camera around and kind
of look around with your camera and your distance sensor this is probably the
least is the second to least necessary addition to your go kygo but I think
it's really cool and for thirteen dollars i mean might as well so next we
have the missile launcher this is the least necessary but it's also the
coolest thing that you can add to it if you ask me
so do what you want we're going to be covering using uh we will cover using
the servo package here and we'll also cover using the missile launcher you can
actually have your robot automatically fire missiles at things so that's really
cool so i highly recommend it but it is $45 which is kind of high but it does
shoot these things for like 20 feet so that's pretty cool actually think it
says 25 feet that's the promise
so anyway I think it's cool but probably the least necessary thing if you're
needing to save some money
next up
we have the tutorials basically so that's all the stuff that you need we
will have tutorials covering how to use all of this stuff did calculating
distances using the camera especially opencv will be doing some more advanced
tutorials with this camera module the servo like I said it's not super
necessary you can always just turn your robot you can make the robot itself
rotate if you need to look around so just you can keep that in mind if you
want this thing is pretty cool we're actually we're gonna try to have it at
automatically shoot targets so it would be kinda cool to have it but again you
don't necessarily need it to follow along once you have your group i go and
all your parts the next step is to put it together so Dexter industries if you
go here to robot scope I go looking for go kygo instructions yet we are getting
started you click on that and these are all you need to assemble the go kygo you
can click on that and there's instructions you can either get
step-by-step instructions and kind of like written form for the go kygo server
package in the camera but they also have video instructions for all of this stuff
so it's extremely simple
I really applaud Dexter industries for how simple they made this goop I go I
realize it's a lot of little parts that were kind of throwing at you but as far
as robotics go
this is really simple took to put all this stuff together so that's really
cool
now after that once you have it together you want to connect to the go kygo
there's a lot of options and there's you know depending on your operating system
how you're going to do this
my personal preference is to connect via ssh now that's going to entail usually
plugging in an ethernet cable like a cat5 to your go for your Raspberry Pi
scanning for IP addresses connecting that way and so you can either do that
to first figure out what your IP addresses because you connect you can
have your Wi-Fi adapter but until you know what the IP addresses and then also
until you actually connect to your Wi-Fi network on your Raspberry Pi not gonna
be able to connect remotely but anyway section for here connect to the go kygo
really simple i recommend use option number three or option number two but
three is where you're eventually going to have to get like
there's no point having a robot if you always have to have an ethernet cord
attached to it so uh huh so definitely I would go 3i also learned something new
on Windows you can get Bonjour which like a printer application and you can
automatically scan and find your pie and connect to it by Bonjour which I thought
like that's really cool i've never heard of anybody doing that so you know for
the first time that you connect to it that makes a lot of sense you never had
to go through the process maybe you won't respect that as much but that's
pretty cool
so anyways you'll connect it you got to get the IP it at least initially somehow
another easy ways is to connect a monitor to it connect your Ethernet or
cat5 cable boot up your Raspberry Pi and usually when you finally get to the
login screen just a bit above where you're going to login
it will literally say where your IP addresses so then you can connect via
ssh which is here so like my pies IP address local is 192 168 01 09 so them
from party we log in that way so then there's that also if you haven't got to
that point too
you're going to need to also install like your operating system to your
Raspberry Pi if you get the kit it will come with the 4 gigabyte SD card with it
already on there if you buy your own SD card you're gonna have to format it and
install and mount the image now that sounds really complex but it's not
and actually you can they have tutorials on Dexter industries again you can also
find a really easy tutorial on a raspberry PI's website but this one's
good enough to you've got modify your own image and see I'm looking for you
right here option if you come to option number two here download and use ours if
you want to download modifiable we have step-by-step instructions here for
mounting the image that you come here and again we've got it is dr paya
operating system say if you're on pc you download their image cool you extract it
cool then use win32 disk imager
yup and you mount the image really easy tutorial just follow it step by step and
that's exactly how you're supposed to do it so easy enough
now that you've got your operating system at that point you're ready to
rumble actually start programming so again I realize that's kind of a lot of
stuff to throw out you in one video but once you get it all together you'll find
that from here it's just smooth sailing
you just have to program the go pie go now but luckily for you there's like a
base kind of framework or API whatever you want to call it built alongside the
go kygo board so like getting your let's say you want to make your go go forward
that is as simple as FWD open close parenthesis enter your go kygo is going
forward right and so getting it to move is extremely simple if you follow along
are more advanced a robotic series here then you probably remember wiring it up
was kind of a pain and then actually controlling the h-bridge to get your
motors because your motors go both forward and backwards right so getting
the h-bridge configured and set up and then you know which which I opines do
you need to trigger and send signals to I mean it was it was kind of confusing
so this would be like a little bit more of an advanced kind of robotic series
but as far as robotics logic is concerned using the go kygo is
incredibly simple and definitely worth worth your while
it's really nice and it's great for especially beginners and stuff like that
but then you can actually start getting advanced with it pretty quick so i
really like it so far i'm a big fan of the dope i go at this point so anyway
that's what you guys have to look forward to what we're going to do in the
next tutorial is get our group i go to be controlled remotely by us using our
keyboard so we'll start off with that will talk about autonomy in the
subsequent video using the distance sensor and all that and then after that
we'll be diving into the animal also actually will cover how to use the
missile launcher to buy your keyboard which is pretty cool and then after that
we'll talk about using the camera module opencv and all that automatically
detects stuff and all that so opencv is really cool because you start getting
into like image recognition and stuff and so that's really exciting thing and
then getting your you're
your goal by go or whatever robot you're working with automatically detect things
and do things that's really really cool so anyways that's what you guys have to
look forward to if you have any questions comments concerns whatever
getting your go kygo set up to the point where at least you can log into your
dope i go like this please feel free to leave them below i'm using putty on
windows and then also for the GUI file system I use winscp i highly recommend
winscp otherwise if you get to this point then you're ready to continue on
to the next tutorial so stay tuned flat