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Learning Javascript Robotics

By : Kassandra Perch
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Learning Javascript Robotics

By: Kassandra Perch

Overview of this book

There has been a rapid rise in the use of JavaScript in recent times in a variety of applications, and JavaScript robotics has seen a rise in popularity too. Johnny-Five is a framework that gives NodeBots a consistent API and platform across several hardware systems. This book walks you through basic robotics projects including the physical hardware builds and the JavaScript code for them. You'll delve into the concepts of Johnny-Five and JS robotics. You'll learn about various components such as Digital GPIO pins, PWM output pins, Sensors, servos, and motors to be used with Johnny-Five along with some advanced components such as I2C, and SPI. You will learn to connect your Johnny-Five robots to internet services and other NodeBots to form networks. By the end of this book, you will have explored the benefits of the Johnny-Five framework and the many devices it unlocks.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
Index

Writing Servo Animations


As we discussed in the last section, an animation in Johnny-Five is created and then you enqueue segments that run first-in, first-out. We're going to go from the inside out in our exploration of creating an animation: first, we'll learn about writing keyframes, then segments, and finally we'll explore the Animation object.

Writing keyframes

Writing keyframes are at the core of the Animation API—the power of this API is its ability to tween between our keyframes. Each keyframe is an object, and you'll pass your keyframes into your segment via an array. Remember: you'll want to write a keyframe for each of your cue points.

The keyframe object

As each keyframe is an object, we have access to a few properties that we can establish for each one:

Keyframe

Properties

degrees

degrees is what the name implies; the degree you want the servo to be at when the keyframe is reached. It should be an integer value between 0 and 180 inclusive.

step

step is similar to degrees...