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Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects - Second Edition

By : Dr. Richard Grimmett
Book Image

Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects - Second Edition

By: Dr. Richard Grimmett

Overview of this book

<p>This book starts with the essentials of turning on the basic hardware. It provides the capability to interpret your commands and have your robot initiate actions. In this second edition, you will learn more specifics on how to use the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins to communicate with and control a wide range of additional hardware.</p> <p>Teaching you to use the Raspberry Pi from scratch, this book will discuss a wide range of capabilities that can be achieved with it. These capabilities include voice recognition, human-like speech simulation, computer vision, motor control, GPS location, and wireless control. You will then learn how to combine these capabilities to create your own robotics projects. By the end of the book, you will be able to employ the Raspberry Pi to build some intricate and enthralling robotics projects with ease.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

About the Reviewer

Werner Ziegelwanger, MSc, has studied game engineering and simulation. He got his master's degree in 2011, and his master's thesis was titled Terrain Rendering with Geometry Clipmaps, Diplomica Verlag. His hobbies are programming, playing games, and all kinds of technical gadgets.

Werner has worked as a self-employed programmer for a few years, where he mainly did web projects. During this time, he started his own blog (http://developer-blog.net), which is about the Raspberry Pi, Linux, and open source.

Since 2013, Werner has been working as a Magento developer and is the head of programming at mStage GmbH, an e-commerce company that focuses on Magento.