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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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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

Strategy 3 – Making SD card backups

Git and SFTP are great for keeping code safe, but they don't help you reinstall and reconfigure Raspberry Pi OS on a card. The procedures for Windows, Linux, and macOS are quite different for this. The basic idea is to insert the SD card and use a tool to clone the whole card to a file known as an image, which you can restore with balenaEtcher when you need recovery.

Important note

You should only restore images to cards of the same size or larger. Putting an image on a smaller device is likely to fail to write, creating a corrupt SD card.

Before we begin, properly shut down your Raspberry Pi, take out its SD card, and put that into your computer. These clean images are large, so do not put them in your Git repository. It's beyond the scope of this chapter, but I recommend finding a way to compress these files as they are mostly empty right now. In all cases, expect this operation to take 20-30 minutes due to the image...

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