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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839218804
Length 602 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Danny Staple Danny Staple
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

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

Making the robot fully phone-operable

The goal here is to make it so that we can drive the robot completely from the phone. We need to ensure that the robot is ready to run when we turn it on, and make sure that the menu is usable from a phone. The menu we made earlier doesn't seem very touch-friendly. It also will not successfully run any of the behaviors with displays using Flask. We will make the menu buttons bigger and more touch-friendly, using styles similar to our manual drive behavior. The menu will also load our server page after clicking a behavior with a server such as this one or the last chapter's visual tracking behaviors.

Let's fix the Flask behaviors first.

Making menu modes compatible with Flask behaviors

If you've already tried running Flask-based behaviors (such as those with a camera) in the control server, you will have noticed some very odd behavior. Your behavior will appear to do the right thing with sensors on the robot, but the...

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