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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Technical requirements

You will require the following hardware for this chapter:

  • An additional Raspberry Pi 4 (model B).
  • An SD card (at least 8 GB).
  • A PC that can write the card (with the balenaEtcher software).
  • The ReSpeaker 2-Mics Pi HAT.
  • Mini Audio Magnet Raspberry Pi Speaker—a tiny speaker with a JST connector or a speaker with a 3.5 mm jack.
  • It may be helpful to have a Micro-HDMI to HDMI cable for troubleshooting.
  • Micro USB power supply.
  • The robot from the previous chapters (after all, we intend to get this moving).

The code for this chapter is available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Robotics-Programming-Second-Edition/tree/master/chapter15.

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action: https://bit.ly/2N5bXqr