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Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript

By : Kassandra Perch
Book Image

Hands-On Robotics with JavaScript

By: Kassandra Perch

Overview of this book

JavaScript has an effective set of frameworks and libraries that provide support for embedded device programming and the robotics ecosystem. You’ll be able to put your JavaScript knowledge to work with this practical robotics guide. The book starts by guiding you in setting up an environment to program robots with JavaScript and Rasberry Pi 3. You will build beginner-level projects, such as a line-following robot, and then upgrade your robotics skills with a series of projects that help you get to grips with the Johnny-Five library. As you progress, you’ll learn how you can improve your projects by enabling advanced hardware components and programming concepts. You’ll even build an advanced AI-enabled robot, connect its NodeBots to the internet, create a NodeBots Swarm, and explore Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT). By the end of this book, you will have enhanced your robot programming skills by building a range of simple to complex projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The construction of the animation object


To construct an animation object, we need to create the object itself, create a set of keyframes and a set of cue points, then enqueue those keyframes and cue points as an animation to run on our servos.

Creating the animation object

Create a new file in your projectfolder called my-first-animation.js and create the normal boilerplate: require in Johnny-Five and Raspi-IO, create your Board object, and create the board.on('ready') function:

constRaspi=require('raspi-io')
constfive=require('johnny-five')

constboard=newfive.Board({
  io:newRaspi()
})

board.on('ready', () => {
})

Then, inside the board.on('ready') handler, construct our two Servo objects on pin 0 and pin 1 of our PWM hat:

letservoOne=newfive.Servo({
  controller:"PCA9685",
  pin:0
})

letservoTwo=newfive.Servo({
  controller:"PCA9685",
  pin: 1
})

And create a Servos object containing our servos:

let servos = new five.Servos([servoOne, servoTwo])

 

Now that we have a group of servos, we can...