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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

Refer to the following links:

  • The Raspberry Pi Foundation guide to installing Raspberry Pi operating systems: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/README.md.
  • Raspberry Pi By Example, Ashwin Pajankar and Arush Kakkar, Packt Publishing, which has a section on alternative OSes for a Raspberry Pi, along with many exciting Raspberry Pi projects.
  • Raspberry Pi GPIO pinout (https://pinout.xyz/): This describes how different boards are connected to the Raspberry Pi in terms of the pins they actually use. It's useful to know that most boards only use a subset of these pins.