Raspberry Pi Robotic Blueprints: Utilize the powerful ingredients of Raspberry Pi to bring to life your amazing robots that can act, draw, and have fun with laser tags

Richard Grimmett

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4.6 (5 Ratings)

eBook Oct 2015 198 pages 1st Edition

Richard Grimmett

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eBook Oct 2015 198 pages 1st Edition

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Learn to implement a number of features offered by Raspberry Pi to build your own amazing robots
Understand how to add vision and voice to your robots.
This fast-paced practical guide comprises a number of creative projects to take your Raspberry Pi knowledge to the next level

Description

The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The Raspberry Pi is known as a tiny computer built on a single circuit board. It runs a Linux operating system, and has connection ports for various peripherals so that it can be hooked up to sensors, motors, cameras, and more. Raspberry Pi has been hugely popular among hardware hobbyists for various projects, including robotics. This book gives you an insight into implementing several creative projects using the peripherals provided by Raspberry Pi. To start, we’ll walk through the basic robotics concepts that the world of Raspberry Pi offers us, implementing wireless communication to control your robot from a distance. Next, we demonstrate how to build a sensible and a visionary robot, maximizing the use of sensors and step controllers. After that, we focus on building a wheeled robot that can draw and play hockey. To finish with a bang, we’ll build an autonomous hexcopter, that is, a flying robot controlled by Raspberry Pi. By the end of this book, you will be a maestro in applying an array of different technologies to create almost any imaginable robot.

Who is this book for?

This all-encompassing guide was created for anyone who is interested in expanding their knowledge in applying the peripherals of Raspberry Pi. If you have a fancy for building complex-looking robots with simple, inexpensive, and readily available hardware, then this book is ideal for you. Prior understanding of Raspberry Pi with simple mechanical systems is recommended.

What you will learn

Add sensors to your robot so that it can sense the world around it
Know everything there is to know about accessing motors and servos to provide movement to the robotic platform
Explore the feature of adding vision to your robot so it can “see” the world around it
Refine your robot with the skill of speech recognition so that it can receive commands
Polish your robot by adding speech output so it can communicate with the world around it
Maximize the use of servos in Raspberry Pi to create a drawing robot
Strengthen your robot by adding wireless communication skills so you can see what the robot is seeing and control it from a distance
Build an unbelievable autonomous hexcopter controlled by Raspberry Pi

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Botmaker Jan 04, 2016

This is a great book, especially for those who learn by doing. Each chapter digs in and shows you a specific example with a complete step by step process that any level of maker should be able to understand. The included pictures and screen shots go a long way towards a reader understanding what is being accomplished by the author in each example. I recommend this book to both new builders and those with experience, as they each can gain from reading and performing the exercises.

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Simon Docwra Jan 13, 2016

This book is well written and extremely easy to read. The projects demonstrated are both educational and to me very practical. I don't get a lot of free time, but the way this book is structured you can easily pick up where you got to or jump from project to project. The projects are also quick to get into making use of open source libraries and second hand toys.

Werner Dec 28, 2015

we at developer-blog.net love this book. The chapters are all unique in content and give many great suggestions on how to implement your own Raspberry Pi controlled robot. All tutorials are straight forward, but good explained. In general, they are for advanced users with basic knowledge, but also beginners can learn a lot. All used sensors are cheap to get from here (Amazon) or other online platforms like ebay.My favorite chapter was how path planning is implemented with some basic Python scripts.

Richard J Breiten Dec 20, 2015

Richard Grimmett continues his series of books on Arduino, BeagleBone, and Raspberry Pi's with this book on Robotic Blueprints. This book covers using these microcontrollers in RC vehicles, making a tracked vehicle plan its own path, building a robot that plays laser tag, and even a flying robot. This book is not intended for those just getting their feet wet in using an RPi and its fellow brethren but rather to expound upon the knowledge the reader already has. Source code for many portions and projects is provided by the author to assist the reader in coming up with their own projects. All in all, this is a very good discourse on robotic projects featuring the evolving area of microprocessors. I look forward to seeing what the author and the manufacturers can create in the coming next few years.

Andrew Connell Dec 18, 2015

I'll admit when I picked this up, it wasn't what I thought it would be. Each chapter is a separate hands-on project like taking apart and controlling a R/C car with a RaspberryPi. A lot of the pictures did a decent job of showing where the connections were and how things were hooked up but some schematic drawings would have helped with hookups. All in all, a good book if you are looking for a "I learn best with experience, so let me dive into a few projects."

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