A versatile, mid-level robot learning platform for Raspberry Pi. This complete kit includes a Raspberry Pi 4, SD card, camera and USB battery pack.
Trilobot is a sturdy Raspberry Pi-based robot kit, designed with educational use in mind. It's straightforward to get started with, but we've made it easy to add extra functionality, so it can grow alongside your plans for an unstoppable robot army robotics skills.
Trilobot's chassis is made of layers of resilient FR-4 printed circuit board, which lets us do some exciting new things not possible with our previous acrylic robots. The motor driver hardware is built right into the chassis itself so you don't need a separate HAT to handle the motors. We've marked up all the layers with useful labels to show you where all the bits go and squeezed in some nifty design touches, like a blingy gold bumper and a stylish reversible top plate. There's also some impressively bright onboard RGB LED underlighting built in as standard!
Driving around a tricked out horseshoe crab on wheels is fun, but if you want to add extra functions to your Trilobot, that's no problem. With a Raspberry Pi camera attached to the tidy built-in camera mount you can record yourself a robot's eye view, or even add some AI/machine learning into the mix. It comes with an ultrasonic distance sensor so it can stop itself from bumping into things but we've made it easy to add more - there's two connectors for plugging in breakouts with Qwiic or STEMMA QT connectors, and broken out headers for adding up to five sockets for Breakout Garden breakouts (requires soldering).
The hardware is supported by a fully-featured Python library, with controller code and lots of examples developed with the help of a top-tier Trilobot testing team.
This deluxe kit includes everything you need to get going with Trilobot, including a Raspberry Pi 4. You might want to add a USB-C power supply if you want to be able to power your Pi or charge the battery from a plug socket - see the extras for some options!
We can only ship the Complete Kit to destinations that can be reached by land freight, because of battery shipping regulations. If you're not getting any valid shipping options at checkout, consider buying the base kit and sourcing a USB battery pack locally!
Features
2x front wheel drive, 1x rear castor
Four tactile buttons and status LEDs
Six-zone RGB underlighting!
Front facing ultrasound distance sensor and camera mount (camera sold separately).
2x Qw/St (Qwiic / STEMMA QT) connectors
Hackable headers for expansion - a servo header, 5x headers for mounting Breakout Garden sockets (sold separately), 1x I2C header
Schematic
Mechanical drawings: Main / top / front / camera
Python library
Full Kit includes
Raspberry Pi 4 1GB
Raspberry Pi v2 camera
32GB NOOBs microSD card
5000mAh USB-C battery pack
Trilobot Kit:
Trilobot main, top, front and camera boards
2x 110:1 motors with pre-soldered shims
2x motor cables
2x grippy moon-buggy wheels
1x ball castor
Ultrasonic distance sensor
Booster header for attaching your Pi
USB-C power cable for connecting a power bank
Associated nuts, bolts and mounting hardware
Getting started
We've got a full, beginner friendly tutorial with plenty of photos to show you how to assemble your Trilobot and how to install the Python library.
Notes
If you want to add moar LEDs to Trilobot, the servo header outputs 5V and is connected to GPIO12, so you can use it with Neopixels/WS2812 strips and panels using Adafruit?s CircuitPython libraries.