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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)

Writing code to test your motors

We will need to download the library to work with the motor board we have chosen. Many robot parts, apart from the simplest ones, have an interface library to control the motors and other devices on the board. It's time to log in to your Pi, using PuTTY again.

Preparing libraries

We will download this code from a project on GitHub using Git, but featuring the Raspberry Pi. So, first, we will need to put Git on the Pi; we are also going to need I2C (i2c-tools and python-smbus) and pip so we can install things into Python. Type the following command:

pi@myrobot:~ $ sudo apt-get install -y git python-pip python-smbus i2c-tools

It will now install these tools for you.

Now, to get the library...