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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

Assessment

  • Try creating a file on your computer – a simple image or text. Try using SFTP to send it to the Raspberry Pi, then, using PuTTY, see if you can list the file with the ls command. The file could be a simple Python script, which you could try running on the Raspberry Pi.
  • Make a change that is incorrect to hello.py. Use diff to see the difference. Use Git resources (see the Further reading section) to find out how to return this to how it was before the change.
  • Make a backup of your Raspberry Pi SD card using the preceding instructions, make some changes to the data in /home/pi, then restore the image using balenaEtcher. You could even restore your backup to another SD card, and plug it into the Raspberry Pi as if it was the original.
  • I recommend finding out more about how Git can be used to look after your code, and even as a method of getting code onto the Raspberry Pi. Use the Further reading section to find out more about Git, and ways to work it...