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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)

Attaching and reading an ultrasonic sensor

First, we should wire in and secure these sensors to the robot. We will talk about the requirements for wiring them and go a little further into the voltage levels that we touched upon in chapter 9 Programming RGB Strips in Python, explaining why we use them. We will then write some simple test code that we can use to base our behavior code on in the next section. After this selection, the robot block diagram will look like what's shown in the following diagram:

Robot block diagram with ultrasonic sensors

Securing the sensors to the robot

In the Technical requirements section, I added a HC-SR04 bracket. Although it is possible to make a custom bracket, without CAD and other...