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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)

Setting up wireless on the Raspberry Pi and enabling SSH

To make your Raspberry Pi headless, we need to set up Wi-Fi. First, you will need to insert the MicroSD card we made earlier back into your computer. If you have come straight here from Etcher, you should remove the card and reinsert it so that the computer can recognize the new state of the drive. You will see the card shows up as two disk drives.

One of the drives is called boot; this is the only one that you can read in Windows. Windows will ask if you want to format one of these disks. Click Cancel when Windows asks you. This is because part of the SD card holds a Linux-specific filesystem that is not readable by Windows.

In boot, you'll need to create two files:

  • ssh: Create this as an empty file with no extension
  • wpa_supplicant.conf: This file will contain your Wi-Fi network configuration
It is important that...