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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

You're reading from   Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++ Leverage Raspberry Pi 3 and C++ libraries to build intelligent robotics applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139006
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Dinesh Tavasalkar Dinesh Tavasalkar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
2. Introduction to the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 3. Implementing Blink with wiringPi 4. Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
5. Programming the Robot 6. Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot 7. Controlling a Robot Using a Laptop 8. Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
9. Accessing the RPi Camera with OpenCV 10. Building an Object-Following Robot with OpenCV 11. Face Detection and Tracking Using the Haar Classifier 12. Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot
13. Building a Voice-Controlled Robot 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting the Raspberry Pi 3B+ to a laptop via Wi-Fi

To connect the Raspberry Pi 3B+ wirelessly to a laptop via Wi-Fi, we first need to connect the RPi to a Wi-Fi network with a piece of software called PuTTY. After that, we can find out the IP address of the Raspberry Pi and enter that into a piece of software called VNC Viewer to connect the Raspberry Pi to a laptop. In order to perform this task successfully, the Raspberry Pi and laptop must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

The hardware required includes the following:

  • An Ethernet cable: The Ethernet cable will be attached directly to the Ethernet port of the Raspberry Pi 3B+ and the Ethernet port of the laptop. If your laptop does not contain an Ethernet port, you will need to purchase a USB-to-Ethernet connector for your laptop.
  • Micro USB B wire: This is a standard Micro USB B wire for connecting the Raspberry Pi...
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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++
Published in: Mar 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789139006
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