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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 interact with and use RGB LEDs, how to choose and buy RGB LED strips that will work with the Raspberry Pi. We then understood the Logic-level conversion for interfacing with devices that do not run at the Raspberry Pi's 3.3V. Further we studied soldering basics and how to put headers on devices that arrive needing them. Finally we learnt how to wire in the LED's and stick them onto your robot, writing code to make them light, bringing LED code in with other robot behaviors and how the HSV color system works and can be used to generate rainbows

In the next chapter, we will look at servo motors, and build a pan and tilt mechanism for moving sensors.