Summary

In this chapter, we've learned how to install the libraries for the motor board and demonstrate that our motors work. We then started building the first layer of code for our behaviors to use, while noting how we could make a layer like that for other robots. We saw our robot move in a path and tuned it, while finding out some of the shortcomings of using motors without any sensors.

You can now use this when starting any hardware project: get the motors/output devices tested first, then create a layer for a behavior to use them, such that if their hardware later changes, you only need to change the motor code.

In the following chapters, we start adding sensors and building behaviors using these sensors.