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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

Preface

Learn Robotics Programming is about building and programming a robot with smart behavior. It covers the skills required to make and build a gadget from parts, including how to choose them. These parts include sensors, motors, cameras, microphones, speakers, lights, and a Raspberry Pi.

This book continues with how to write code to make those parts do something interesting. The book uses Python, together with a little bit of HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

The technology used is intended to include things that are available and affordable and the code is shown to demonstrate concepts, so they can be used and combined to create even more interesting code and robots.

The topics combine aspects of being a programmer with aspects of being a robot maker, with a number of specialist topics such as computer vision and voice assistants thrown in.