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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Setting up the MQTT broker


Remember the old boring update process of vision processing? How can you forget? We have to do the same here as well. But lucky for us, this time it's not very long. So, let's see what we have to do to set up this server. Open up your command line and type in these following lines:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

You know what this line does. If you don't have a clear memory of it, then refer to Chapter 9Vision Processing. Once the update and upgrade processes are complete, go ahead and install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install mosquitto -y

This will install the Mosquitto broker onto your Raspberry Pi. This broker will take care of all the data transfer:

sudo apt-get install mosquitto-clients -y

Now, this line will install the client packages. As you can imagine, Raspberry Pi in itself will be a client to the broker. Hence, it will take care of the needful.

We have now installed the packages; yes exactly, it was that small. Now, all we need to do...