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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)

How code can be broken or lost

Code and its close cousin, configuration, take time and hard work. Code needs configuration to run, such as Raspbian configuration, extra software, and necessary data files. Both need research and learning, design, making them, testing, and debugging.

Many bad situations can lead to the loss of code. These have happened to me a week before taking robots to a show, after weeks of work, and I learned the hard way to take this quite seriously. So, what can happen to your code?

SD card data loss and corruption

SD card corruption is when the data on the SD card used to hold your code, Raspbian, and anything you've prepared on it is broken. Files become unreadable or the card becomes unusable...