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Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learn Robotics Programming - Second Edition

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
Profile icon Danny Staple

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

Finding your Pi on the network

Assuming your SSID and PSK are correct, your Raspberry Pi is now registered on your Wi-Fi network. However, now you need to find it. The Raspberry Pi uses dynamic addresses (DHCP). Every time you connect it to your network, it may get a different address. Visiting the admin page on your Wi-Fi router and writing down the IP address works in the short term. Doing that every time the address changes is frustrating, and may not be available in some situations.

Luckily, the Raspberry Pi uses a technology known as mDNS (Multicast Domain Name System), so nearby computers can find it. A client computer will broadcast a local message to ask for devices with the name raspberrypi.local, and the Raspberry Pi will respond with the address to find it. This is also known by the names Zeroconf and Bonjour. So, the first thing you'll need to do is ensure your computer can do this.

If you are using macOS, your computer will already be running the Bonjour software...

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