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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

Letting the world know

You are bound to have questions about how to proceed and problems to be solved—perhaps you've already encountered them before building. When you have questions or have made some minor progress, it is the right time to get online and link with the robotics communities, as shown in the Online robot building communities section of Chapter 18, Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further.

Use Twitter and Stack Overflow to ask questions or even answer questions from other robot builders. Use YouTube to share your creation or the story of your build and see other people's builds. You do not need to wait until you have a perfectly polished product. Share the steps you've taken, the frustrations you have encountered, and even the failures you've learned from. Failure situations make for some of the best stories. These stories can be just the right motivation for someone else to keep on persisting with complicated builds.

Use a combination...