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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

The Johnny-Five button object


Before we program our button project, let's take a good look at the Johnny-Five button object, so we know what events to look for, and what information the constructor wants from us.

 

The button object

When we look at the button's parameters section, there is only one required parameter, pin. So we'll need to remember what pin to which we hook the signal from the button, but other than that, the defaults will serve us nicely:

  • invert: Defaults to false, and inverts the up and down values. We'd like to keep this false, as we're wiring the button to not require inversion.
  • isPullup: Tells boards with pull-up resistors tied to their GPIO pins to initialize this button with the pull-up enabled. We're going to wire our own resistor, so this can stay the default false.
  • isPulldown: Similar to isPullup, but with pull-down resistors. Leave this false as we are wiring our own pull-down resistor.
  • holdtime: This is the number of milliseconds a button must be held down before the...