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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You’ll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Configuring Raspbian

Now we are connected, let's do a few things to prepare the Raspberry Pi for use: change the user password and change the hostname to make the Pi more secure.

We can perform many of these tasks with the raspi-config tool, a menu system to perform common configuration tasks on Raspbian. We start it with another tool, sudo, which runs raspi-config as root, a master user. Refer to the following command:

sudo raspi-config

The raspi-config interface will appear, as follows:

The raspi-config

Renaming your Pi

Every fresh Raspberry Pi image is called raspberrypi. This means that if there is more than one of those in a room, your computer will not be able to find yours. It's time to think of a name...