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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

Downloading and installing OpenCV – a fully featured vision library


Now that you have your camera connected, you can access the amazing capabilities that have been provided by the open source community. Open a terminal window and type the following commands:

  1. sudo apt-get update: You're going to download a number of new software packages, so it is better to make sure that everything is up to date.

  2. sudo apt-get install build-essential: Although, you may have done this earlier, the library is essential for building OpenCV.

  3. sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev: This library provides a way to code and decode the audio and video streams.

  4. sudo apt-get install ffmpeg: This library provides a way to transcode the audio and video streams.

  5. sudo apt-get install libcv2.4 libcvaux2.4 libhighgui2.4: This command shows the basic OpenCV libraries. Note the number in the command. This will almost certainly change as the newer versions of OpenCV become available. If 2.4 does not work, then either try 3.0 or...

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