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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

Strategy 2 – Using Git to go back in time

Git is a popular form of source control, a way to keep a history of changes you've made to code. You can go back through changes, see what they were, restore older versions, and keep a commented log of why you made the changes. Git also lets you store code in more than one location in case your hard drive fails. Git stores code and its history in repositories, or repos. In Git, you can make branches, copies of the whole set of code, to try ideas in parallel with your code, and later merge those back to the main branch.

I will get you started, but this section can only scratch the surface of what you can do with Git. Let's begin:

  1. Install Git, by following the instructions at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git for your computer.

    Tip

    If you are using Windows or macOS, I would suggest using the GitHub app for easier setup.

  2. Git requires you to set your identity using a command line on your...