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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)

Chapter 15, Programming a Gamepad on Raspberry Pi with Python

  • What is a "static" file?
    • A static file is a file served by a webserver that is not generated or changed, but just delivered as is to the browser. This is perfect for JS, CSS files, or library files.
  • What does the path: prefix mean for a section of a Flask route?
    • This can be used to denote that the route section matches a string that may contain slash / separator characters, to put into a variable, like the following example:
...
@app.route('/control/<path:control_name>')
def control(control_name):

...
  • What is the unit vw in CSS, and why do we use it?
    • vw is an abbreviation for viewport width. It specifies things as a percentage of viewport width. It is used so things can scale in proportion to size of the screen we are looking at them with.
  • How do you get events when a screen is touched...