You're reading from Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

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Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218804

Pages 602 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Author (1):

Danny Staple

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

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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...