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Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By : Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Book Image

Getting Started with Python for the Internet of Things

By: Tim Cox, Steven Lawrence Fernandes, Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor, Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

This Learning Path takes you on a journey in the world of robotics and teaches you all that you can achieve with Raspberry Pi and Python. It teaches you to harness the power of Python with the Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Pi zero to build superlative automation systems that can transform your business. You will learn to create text classifiers, predict sentiment in words, and develop applications with the Tkinter library. Things will get more interesting when you build a human face detection and recognition system and a home automation system in Python, where different appliances are controlled using the Raspberry Pi. With such diverse robotics projects, you'll grasp the basics of robotics and its functions, and understand the integration of robotics with the IoT environment. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have covered everything from configuring a robotic controller, to creating a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. • Raspberry Pi 3 Cookbook for Python Programmers - Third Edition by Tim Cox, Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes • Python Programming with Raspberry Pi by Sai Yamanoor, Srihari Yamanoor • Python Robotics Projects by Prof. Diwakar Vaish
Table of Contents (37 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 23. Making Your Own Area Scanner

Motors are amazing things; they come in all shapes and sizes. Primarily, they can be considered the backbone of most robots. However, nothing is perfect in this world. There must be some drawbacks to these motors as well. By now, you might have figured out some by yourself. In the previous chapter, when we made the car turn, you might have seen that the angle of turn was never really the same. Also when the vehicle was given the command to go straight, it really would not do so. Rather it would try to run slight, toward one side. 

Say hello to the first problem—precision. The motors are exceptionally simple to control, but the problem with these motors come when we have to rotate the motors only till a specific angle. If you need to rotate the motor of your robotic vehicle only by 90 degrees, then how would you do it? The first and foremost thing that might come to your mind would be to fiddle with the timings of the motors. You might be right here...