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Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints

You're reading from   Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints Utilize the powerful ingredients of Raspberry Pi to bring to life your amazing robots that can act, draw, and have fun with laser tags

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396282
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Adding Raspberry Pi to an RC Vehicle 2. Adding Raspberry Pi to a Humanoid Robot FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a Tracked Vehicle That Can Plan Its Own Path 4. Building a Robot That Can Play Laser Tag 5. A Robot That Can Draw 6. A Robot That Can Play Air Hockey 7. A Robot That Can Fly Index

Interpreting commands and initiating actions

Now that the system can both hear and speak, you'll want to provide the robot with the capability to respond to your speech and execute some commands based on the speech input. Next, you're going to configure the system to respond to simple commands.

In order to respond, we're going to edit the continuous.c code in the /home/pi/src/programs directory. We could create our own C file, but this file is already set up in the makefile system and is an excellent starting spot. You can save a copy of the current file as continuous.c.old so that you can always get back to the starting program if required. Then, you will need to edit the continuous.c file. It is very long and a bit complicated. However, you are specifically looking for a section in the code, which is shown in the following screenshot. Look for the comment line /* Exit if the first word spoken was GOODBYE */ comment line.

Interpreting commands and initiating actions

In this section of the code, the word has already been...

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