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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to connect your first sensor, a line sensor, to the robot. You've used a breadboard and wired the sensor into the Raspberry Pi.

You've added the sensor into the robot object, so it can be used in behaviors and so the behavior can be used with robots using sensors such as these on different pins. You have a test track to be able to test and demonstrate the line-following behavior and, if you are feeling excited, you know how to draw more of them. Finally, you've built a behavior for line tracking and seen it work—a simple bit of code but a behavior that starts to feel a little smart.

In the next chapter, we will make our robot both easier to debug and a little more visually engaging by using a multi-color LED strip with it.