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Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript

By : Kassandra Perch
Book Image

Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript

By: Kassandra Perch

Overview of this book

JavaScript has an effective set of frameworks and libraries that provide support for embedded device programming and the robotics ecosystem. You’ll be able to put your JavaScript knowledge to work with this practical robotics guide. The book starts by guiding you in setting up an environment to program robots with JavaScript and Rasberry Pi 3. You will build beginner-level projects, such as a line-following robot, and then upgrade your robotics skills with a series of projects that help you get to grips with the Johnny-Five library. As you progress, you’ll learn how you can improve your projects by enabling advanced hardware components and programming concepts. You’ll even build an advanced AI-enabled robot, connect its NodeBots to the internet, create a NodeBots Swarm, and explore Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT). By the end of this book, you will have enhanced your robot programming skills by building a range of simple to complex projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Project – two servos and the REPL


Now that we have one servo up and running, we're going to wire up a second one and use the REPL to explore the Johnny-Five Servos object, which is meant to help control several servos at once.

First, let's wire up our second servo.

 

Wiring up a second servo

Take the second servo, figure out which side is ground, put that one on the bottom, and slide the three-pin socket over the pins in the second column (pin 1):

Now that we've wired up a second servo, let's start coding our Johnny-Five servos object!

Using the Johnny-Five servos object

The Johnny-Five servos object is meant to help you group servos in ways that make sense for projects with many servos, such as hexapods with six legs, each containing multiple servos.

 

You can create a Servos object in a few different ways; the way we will use is to pass an array of constructed servo objects:

let servos=newfive.Servos([servoOne,servoTwo])

This is where the magic happens—now that our servo objects are grouped in a...