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Learn Robotics Programming

You're reading from Learn Robotics Programming Build and control AI-enabled autonomous robots using the Raspberry Pi and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218804

Length 602 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Danny Staple

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Basics – Preparing for Robotics

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Robotics FREE CHAPTER

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

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Technical requirements

To complete the exercises in this chapter, you will require the following:

A Raspberry Pi, preferably a 3A+ (but a Pi 3 or 4 will do)
A USB power supply capable of 2.1 amps with a Micro-USB cable
The MicroSD card you prepared in the previous chapter
A Windows, Linux, or macOS computer connected to the internet and able to read/write to SD cards
A text editor on your computer – VS Code is a suitable multiplatform option
PuTTY software on Windows (SSH software is already available on Mac and Linux desktops)

The GitHub link for the code is as follows:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Robotics-Programming-Second-Edition/tree/master/chapter4

Check out the following video to see the Code in Action: https://bit.ly/3bErI1I

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Authors (1)

Danny Staple

Danny Staple

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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