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Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects

By : Dr. Richard Grimmett
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Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects

By: Dr. Richard Grimmett

Overview of this book

<p>Robotics development is accelerating, and an amazing array of new hardware and software capabilities are available to anyone with an interest in the area. Robots will soon be a part of our everyday life, and it will soon be as important to know how they work as it is to know how a computer works. Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized, fully capable PC that can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, such as spreadsheets, word processing, and games.</p> <p>This book starts with the essentials of turning on the basic hardware. It provides the capability to interpret your commands and have your robot initiate actions. By the time you are through, you’ll have robots that can speak, listen, and move in a number of amazing ways.</p> <p>This book is a step-by-step projects guide to unlocking some complex and interesting capabilities of Raspberry Pi. Teaching you to use Raspberry Pi from scratch, this book will discuss a wide range of capabilities that can be achieved with it. These capabilities include voice recognition, human-like speech simulation, computer vision, motor control, GPS location, and wireless control. You will then learn how to combine these capabilities to create your own robotics projects.</p> <p>By the time you have completed this book, you will be able to use Raspberry Pi to create some complex and fascinating robotics projects with a vast array of capabilities.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Robotic Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


Now your project can both hear and speak. You can use these functions later when you want to interact with your project without typing commands or using a display. You should also feel more comfortable installing new hardware and software into your system. We'll be using this skill throughout the book as we look at more complex projects.

In the next chapter, we'll look at adding a capability that will allow your robots to see and use vision to track objects, motion, or whatever else your robot needs to track.