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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is known as a tiny computer built on a single circuit board. It runs a Linux operating system, and has connection ports for various peripherals so that it can be hooked up to sensors, motors, cameras, and more. Raspberry Pi has been hugely popular among hardware hobbyists for various projects, including robotics. This book gives you an insight into implementing several creative projects using the peripherals provided by Raspberry Pi. To start, we’ll walk through the basic robotics concepts that the world of Raspberry Pi offers us, implementing wireless communication to control your robot from a distance. Next, we demonstrate how to build a sensible and a visionary robot, maximizing the use of sensors and step controllers. After that, we focus on building a wheeled robot that can draw and play hockey. To finish with a bang, we’ll build an autonomous hexcopter, that is, a flying robot controlled by Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in applying an array of different technologies to create almost any imaginable robot.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Interpreting commands and initiating actions


Now that the system can both hear and speak, you'll want to provide the robot with the capability to respond to your speech and execute some commands based on the speech input. Next, you're going to configure the system to respond to simple commands.

In order to respond, we're going to edit the continuous.c code in the /home/pi/src/programs directory. We could create our own C file, but this file is already set up in the makefile system and is an excellent starting spot. You can save a copy of the current file as continuous.c.old so that you can always get back to the starting program if required. Then, you will need to edit the continuous.c file. It is very long and a bit complicated. However, you are specifically looking for a section in the code, which is shown in the following screenshot. Look for the comment line /* Exit if the first word spoken was GOODBYE */ comment line.

In this section of the code, the word has already been decoded and...