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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218804
Pages 602 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Danny Staple Danny Staple
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Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Robotics 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Robot Building Blocks – Code and Electronics 4. Chapter 3: Exploring the Raspberry Pi 5. Chapter 4: Preparing a Headless Raspberry Pi for a Robot 6. Chapter 5: Backing Up the Code with Git and SD Card Copies 7. Section 2: Building an Autonomous Robot – Connecting Sensors and Motors to a Raspberry Pi
8. Chapter 6: Building Robot Basics – Wheels, Power, and Wiring 9. Chapter 7: Drive and Turn – Moving Motors with Python 10. Chapter 8: Programming Distance Sensors with Python 11. Chapter 9: Programming RGB Strips in Python 12. Chapter 10: Using Python to Control Servo Motors 13. Chapter 11: Programming Encoders with Python 14. Chapter 12: IMU Programming with Python 15. Section 3: Hearing and Seeing – Giving a Robot Intelligent Sensors
16. Chapter 13: Robot Vision – Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV 17. Chapter 14: Line-Following with a Camera in Python 18. Chapter 15: Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft 19. Chapter 16: Diving Deeper with the IMU 20. Chapter 17: Controlling the Robot with a Phone and Python 21. Section 4: Taking Robotics Further
22. Chapter 18: Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further 23. Chapter 19: Planning Your Next Robot Project – Putting It All Together 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 2: Exploring Robot Building Blocks – Code and Electronics

In this chapter, we'll take a robot apart to see its parts and systems. We'll explore the components of a robot, both the software (code, commands, and libraries) and the hardware, and how they go together. When starting to make a robot, it's valuable to think about the parts you want and how they relate to one another. I recommend sketching a plan of your robot—a block diagram as a guide to the connected code and parts, which we will explore in this chapter as well.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Looking at what's inside a robot
  • Exploring types of robot components
  • Exploring controllers and I/O
  • Planning components and code structure
  • Planning the physical robot
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Authors (1)

Profile icon Danny Staple
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Danny Staple builds robots and gadgets as a hobbyist, makes videos about his work with robots, and attends community events such as PiWars and Arduino Day. He has been a professional Python programmer, later moving into DevOps, since 2009, and a software engineer since 2000. He has worked with embedded systems, including embedded Linux systems, throughout the majority of his career. He has been a mentor at a local CoderDojo, where he taught how to code with Python. He has run Lego Robotics clubs with Mindstorms. He has also developed Bounce!, a visual programming language targeted at teaching code using the NodeMCU IoT platform. The robots he has built with his children include TankBot, SkittleBot (now the Pi Wars robot), ArmBot, and SpiderBot.
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