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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

  • Raspberry Pi Sensors, Rushi Gajjar, Packt Publishing: Learn to integrate sensors into your Raspberry Pi projects and let your powerful microcomputer interact with the physical world.
  • Make Sensors: A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Ville Valtokari, Maker Media, Inc.: Learn to use sensors to connect a Raspberry Pi or Arduino controller with the real world.
  • Make: Electronics: Learning Through Discovery, Charles Platt, Make Community, LLC: This is a useful resource if you want to find out more about electronic components and dive deeper into the individual components.