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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

Using PuTTY or SSH to connect to your Raspberry Pi

Earlier, we added a file to our Raspberry Pi boot named ssh. This activates the SSH service on the Pi. As mentioned before, SSH is an abbreviation for secure shell, intended for secure network access. In this case, we are not specifically targeting the secure encryption capabilities, but are using the remote networking capability to send instructions and files to and from the Raspberry Pi without having physical access to it.

Important note

If you already use an SSH client, note that not all of the Windows command-line SSH clients support mDNS.

PuTTY is a handy tool for accessing SSH and is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. Its installation information for these operating systems can be found at https://www.ssh.com/ssh/putty/.

Once you have PuTTY installed from the preceding link, let's get it connected to your Raspberry Pi. Follow along:

  1. Start PuTTY. You will see a screen like in Figure 4.3. In the Host...