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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Basic installation


There are various ways and methods through which we can control our smart home Jarvis, some of which we have explored earlier such as controlling it through. So, to start with, we need to prepare our system to be able to do speech synthesis; to do that, let's perform the following process.

First, go to the terminal and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils

What this will do is install the dependency alsa-utils. Thealsa-utils package contains various utilities that are useful for controlling your sound drivers.

Once this is done, you need to edit the file. To do it, we need to open the file. Use the following command:

sudo nano /etc/modules

Once that is done, a file will open; at the bottom of that file, you need to add the following line:

snd_bcm2835

You don't need to get too much into why we are doing it. It's just there to set things up. I can give you an explanation; however, I do not wish to bore you at this exciting moment. 

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