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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using the Flick HAT


Flick HAT comes in the form of a shield, which you can simply plug into your Raspberry Pi and start using. However, once you do that, you will not be left with any GPIO pins. Hence, to save ourselves from that problem, we will be connecting it using male-to-female wires. This will give us access to the other GPIO pins and then we can have fun.

So, go ahead and connect it as follows. The following is a pin diagram of the Flick board:

Thereafter, make the connections as follows: 

Once the connection is done, simply upload this code and see what happens: 

import signal
import flicklib
import time
def message(value):
   print value
@flicklib.move()
def move(x, y, z):
   global xyztxt
   xyztxt = '{:5.3f} {:5.3f} {:5.3f}'.format(x,y,z)
@flicklib.flick()
def flick(start,finish):
   global flicktxt
   flicktxt = 'FLICK-' + start[0].upper() + finish[0].upper()
   message(flicktxt)
def main():
   global xyztxt
   global flicktxt
   xyztxt = ''
   flicktxt = ''
   flickcount = 0
 ...