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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By : Danny Staple
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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

By: Danny Staple

Overview of this book

We live in an age where the most complex or repetitive tasks are automated. Smart robots have the potential to revolutionize how we perform all kinds of tasks with high accuracy and efficiency. With this second edition of Learn Robotics Programming, you'll see how a combination of the Raspberry Pi and Python can be a great starting point for robot programming. The book starts by introducing you to the basic structure of a robot and shows you how to design, build, and program it. As you make your way through the book, you'll add different outputs and sensors, learn robot building skills, and write code to add autonomous behavior using sensors and a camera. You'll also be able to upgrade your robot with Wi-Fi connectivity to control it using a smartphone. Finally, you'll understand how you can apply the skills that you've learned to visualize, lay out, build, and code your future robot building projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built an interesting robot that can perform basic artificial intelligence operations and be well versed in programming robots and creating complex robotics projects using what you've learned.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
7
Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
15
Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
21
Section 4: Taking Robotics Further

Further reading

To find out more about the topics covered in this chapter, here are some suggestions:

  • I highly recommend the Flask API documentation (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/), both to help understand the Flask functions we've used and to learn other ways to use this flexible web server library.
  • For a more guided look at the Flask web server, I suggest reading Flask By Example, Gareth Dwyer, Packt Publishing (https://www.packtpub.com/product/flask-by-example/9781785286933), showing you how to build more involved web applications using Flask.
  • I also recommend the book Mastering Flask, Jack Stouffer, Packt Publishing (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/mastering-flask).
  • The HTML used in this chapter is elementary. To get a more in-depth look into how you could enhance the simple menu system, I recommend the e-learning video guide Beginning Responsive Web Development with HTML and CSS [eLearning], Ben Frain, Cord Slatton-Valle, Joshua Miller...