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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

Chapter 3: Exploring the Raspberry Pi

In the previous chapter, we saw the Raspberry Pi in the deconstruction of a robot. It's no surprise, then, that we'll build a robot using the Raspberry Pi.

In this chapter, we will be using the Raspberry Pi 3A+ as a controller. We'll look at various options when examining this choice, and look at features such as the connections on the Raspberry Pi and how we will use them to understand our decision. We'll move on to exploring Raspberry Pi OS, and will finish by preparing the OS for use on the Raspberry Pi.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Exploring the Raspberry Pi's capabilities
  • Choosing the connections
  • What is Raspberry Pi OS?
  • Preparing an SD card with Raspberry Pi OS