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Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript

By : Kassandra Perch
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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

Questions


  1. What is the common operating system for the Raspberry Pi that we'll be using in the projects in this book, and what Linux distribution is it based on?
  2. What does GPIO stand for?
  3. Who originally started the Johnny-Five project, and what did they use it to control?

 

  1. What command do you run on the Raspberry Pi to find out what ARM architecture it uses?
  2. Why is changing the default Raspberry Pi password important?
  3. What are two benefits of using JavaScript and Node.js for robotics code?
  4. Why do we have to download the Node.js binaries instead of using Raspbian's package manager?