Don’t Push Me

Let us give Pico-4wd a little self-protection awareness and let it learn to use its own grayscale module to avoid rushing down the cliff.

In this example, the car will be dormant. If you push it to a cliff, it will be awakened urgently, then back up, and shake its head to express dissatisfaction.

Code

Note

• Open the donot_push_me.py file under the path of pico_4wd_car\examples or copy this code into Thonny, then click “Run Current Script” or simply press F5 to run it.

• Don’t forget to click on the “MicroPython (Raspberry Pi Pico)” interpreter in the bottom right corner.

• For detailed tutorials, please refer to Open and Run Code Directly.

import pico_4wd as car
import time

car.GRAYSCALE_EDGE_REFERENCE = 500
MOTOR_POWER = 50

def shake_head():
    for angle in range(0, 90, 10):
        print("angle:%s "%angle)
        car.servo.set_angle(angle)
        time.sleep(0.01)
    for angle in range(90, -90, -10):
        print("angle:%s "%angle)
        car.servo.set_angle(angle)
        time.sleep(0.01)
    for angle in range(-90, 0, 10):
        print("angle:%s "%angle)
        car.servo.set_angle(angle)
        time.sleep(0.01)

def main():
    while True:
        if car.is_greyscale_on_edge():
            car.move("backward", MOTOR_POWER)
            car.set_light_all_color([100, 0, 0])
            shake_head()
            shake_head()
        else:
            car.move("stop", MOTOR_POWER)
            car.set_light_off()

try:
    main()
finally:
    car.move("stop")
    car.set_light_off()

How it Work?