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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 4: Preparing a Headless Raspberry Pi for a Robot

In this chapter, you will learn why the Raspberry Pi controller on a robot should be wireless and headless, what headless means, and why it's useful in robotics. You will see how to set up a Raspberry Pi directly as a headless device, and how to connect to this Raspberry Pi once on the network, and then send your first instructions to it. By the end of the chapter, you will have your own ready-to-use Raspberry Pi without needing to connect a screen, keyboard, or wired network to it, so it can be mobile in a robot.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is a headless system and why is it useful in a robot?
  • Setting up Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi and enabling SSH
  • Finding your Raspberry Pi on the network
  • Using PuTTY or SSH to connect to your Raspberry Pi
  • Configuring Raspberry Pi OS