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You're reading from Learn Robotics Programming Build and control autonomous robots using Raspberry Pi 3 and Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789340747

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Danny Staple

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Robotics

2. Exploring Robot Building Blocks - Code and Electronics FREE CHAPTER

3. Introducing the Raspberry Pi - Starting with Raspbian

4. Preparing a Raspberry Pi for a Robot - Headless by Default

5. Backing Up the Code with Git and SD Card Copies

6. Building Robot Basics - Wheels, Power, and Wiring

7. Drive and Turn - Moving Motors with Python

8. Programming Line-Following Sensors Using Python

9. Programming RGB Strips in Python

10. Using Python to Control Servo Motors

11. Programming Distance Sensors with Python

12. Programming Encoders with Python

13. Robot Vision - Using a Pi Camera and OpenCV

14. Voice Communication with a Robot Using Mycroft

15. Programming a Gamepad on Raspberry Pi with Python

16. Taking Your Robot Programming Skills Further

17. Planning Your Next Robot Project - Putting It All Together

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Appendix

Preparing an SD card

To use Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi, you will need to put the software onto a micro SD card in a way that the Raspberry Pi can load it.

First, we need to download Raspbian. To do this, take your browser to the Raspberry Pi Raspbian Downloads Page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. On this page, you'll see two distributions: Raspbian With a Desktop and Raspbian Lite. Both these links will be the current version of Raspbian:

The Raspberry Pi downloads screen

The Raspbian Lite downloads can be seen highlighted in the preceding image. You'll see two download links, Download Torrent and Download Zip. Click the Download Zip button and save this file. Note that the versions do change, so please use the current version. This file is big, at around 400 MB! It will be named something like 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip, with a current...

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Authors (1)

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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