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Mastering IOT

By : Colin Dow, Perry Lea
Book Image

Mastering IOT

By: Colin Dow, Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. We’ll begin our journey with an introduction to Raspberry Pi and quickly jump right into Python programming. We’ll learn all concepts through multiple projects, and then reinforce our learnings by creating an IoT robot car. We’ll examine modern sensor systems and focus on what their power and functionality can bring to our system. We’ll also gain insight into cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The Learning Path will conclude by discussing three forms of prevalent attacks and ways to improve the security of our IoT infrastructure. By the end of this Learning Path, we will have traversed the entire spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, and will have the confidence to build, secure, and monitor our IoT infrastructure. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Internet of Things Programming Projects by Colin Dow Internet of Things for Architects by Perry Lea
Table of Contents (34 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story
Index

Chapter 22. Introducing the Raspberry Pi Robot Car

I would like to introduce you to T.A.R.A.S, the robot car. T.A.R.A.S is actually a backronym; I took the name from a business mentor of mine who helped me get started. After scratching my head trying to come up with something, I finally figured out how to turn my friend Taras into T.A.R.A.S, this Amazing Raspberry-Pi Automated Security agent. As you can probably tell from the name, T.A.R.A.S will monitor things for us and act as an automated security guard.

T.A.R.A.S will use Raspberry Pi for a brain and motor driver boards to control both the movement of its camera gimbal and wheels. T.A.R.A.S will also have sensory inputs as well as LED and buzzer outputs. T.A.R.A.S will be an aggregation of the skills we have acquired throughout this book.

We will spend this chapter building T.A.R.A.S and writing code to control it.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • The parts of the robot car
  • Building the robot car