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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293136
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Blue FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Blue 3. Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement 4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 5. Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See 6. Providing Speech Input and Output 7. Making the Unit Very Mobile - Controlling Legged Movement 8. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 9. By Land, By Sea, By Air 10. System Dynamics

Programming the BeagleBone Blue

Before you get started with building your robotic projects, let's take a bit of time to either introduce or review how to program the BeagleBone Blue.

In this chapter, you will:

  • Learn some of the basic Linux commands and get to know how to navigate around the filesystem on the BeagleBone Blue
  • Learn how to create, edit, and save files on the BeagleBone Blue
  • Learn how to create and run Python programs on the BeagleBone Blue
  • Learn how the C programming language is both similar and different from Python so you can both create and edit C code files

Now that things are up and running, you'll want your BeagleBone Blue to start doing something. Almost always, this requires you to either create your own programs or edit someone else's programs. This chapter will provide a brief introduction to basic Linux commands and Python and C programming...

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