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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

Who this book is for

This book is intended for someone with a little programming experience, or someone more experienced but looking to apply their skills to a hardware project. You do not need to be an expert-level programmer, but do have to have written some lines of code and be comfortable with looping, conditionals, and functions. Knowledge of object-oriented- (class- and object-) based programming isn't necessary but is introduced in the book.

The book does not require a specialist workshop, although there will be a little soldering and bolting things together. This will be introduced later in the book.

You do not need to have any experience at all with electronics or making things, but hopefully, you'll have a healthy interest in learning more, since some very basic concepts are introduced throughout the book. Being keen to build a robot, get it to do stuff, and find out what to do with it next is probably the most important aspect of the book.