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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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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

Controlling your robot via a game pad controller

You've assembled your robot and can now control it via the BeagleBone Blue. You can run the control program using a VNC server configuration. Doing this will allow you basic control of the robot wirelessly. However, it would be easier to control your quadcopter using a game controller.

What you want is a controller that has more immediate control of the different aspects of your robot. Perhaps the most practical is a game controller that has two joysticks and several additional buttons. Using these as input mechanisms will make controlling your robot with the BeagleBone Blue much easier.

To add the game controller, you'll need to first find a game controller that can connect to your computer. If you are using Microsoft Windows as the OS on the host computer, then pretty much any USB controller that can connect to a PC...

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