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This guide shows you how to build and control a Raspberry Pi-powered robot with a Nintendo Wiimote.

As well as a Raspberry Pi with an SD card loaded with Raspbian, you'll also need:

• Robot chassis - Rover 5. This includes 2 motors and a battery pack.
• Motor controller, such as the Ryanteck motor controller
• Input device - Nintendo Wiimote
• Bluetooth dongle to talk to the Wiimote
• USB rechargeable battery to power the Raspberry Pi like this one from the PiHut

• Software packages to use Bluetooth
• Python libraries for the Wiimote

Instructions on installing this software is given in the worksheet.

Follow the steps in the worksheet.

• worksheet

Unless otherwise specified, everything in this repository is covered by the following licence:

Robo Butler by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

Based on a work at https://github.com/raspberrypilearning/robobutler