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Mastering Beaglebone Robotics

You're reading from Mastering Beaglebone Robotics Master the power of the BeagleBone Black to maximize your robot-building skills and create awesome projects

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783988907

Length 234 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

BeagleBone

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparing the BeagleBone Black FREE CHAPTER

2. Building a Basic Tracked Vehicle

3. Adding Sensors to Your Tracked Vehicle

4. Vision and Image Processing

5. Building a Robot that Can Walk

6. A Robot that Can Sail

7. Using GPS for Navigation

8. Measuring Wind Speed – Integrating Analog Sensors

9. An Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle

10. A Quadcopter

11. An Autonomous Quadcopter

Index

Summary

In this chapter, you tackled a robot that can go under the water. You learned how to control a project via a LAN connection across a significant distance with the ROV project. In the next chapter, you will move to projects that can fly.

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Authors (1)

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett

Richard Grimmett has more fun that should be allowed working on robotics projects while teaching Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University Idaho. He has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Leadership Studies. He also has 26 years of experience in the Radar and Telecommunications industries, and even has one of the original brick phones. He has written books on the basics of using the BeagleBone Black for robotics projects, and another for the Raspberry PI and yet another for the Arduino.

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