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Learn Robotics Programming

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most difficult human tasks are now automated. Smart and intelligent robots, which will perform different tasks precisely and efficiently, are the requirement of the hour. A combination of Raspberry Pi and Python works perfectly when making these kinds of robots. Learn Robotics Programming starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot, along with how to plan, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you will gradually progress to adding different outputs and sensors, learning new building skills, and writing code for interesting behaviors with sensors. You’ll also be able to update your robot, and set up web, phone, and Wi-Fi connectivity in order to control it. By the end of the book, you will have built a clever robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence (AI) operations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Creating pan and tilt code

For our pan and tilt code, we will again build this in layers. We will create a servo class and bury the previous calculations in it. We will then set up our robot class to have an instance of the servo class, and ways to access the servo setup to pan and the servo to tilt.

Making a servo object

In this object we will encapsulate (that is, create a module to hide the details of) converting an angle into a servo movement. We will make a Servos class in a servos.py file for this. The servos.py file starts off with only an import. So we'll go straight into the constructor (the __init__ function).

This should look pretty familiar, we are taking the device address and the calibration parameter as...