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Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials

You're reading from Raspberry Pi Robotics Essentials Harness the power of Raspberry Pi with Six Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) to create an amazing walking robot

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785284847

Length 158 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Raspberry Pi

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Richard Grimmett

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Configuring and Programming Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER

2. Building the Biped

3. Motion for the Biped

4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors

5. Path Planning and Your Biped

6. Adding Vision to Your Biped

7. Accessing Your Biped Remotely

Index

Installing a camera on your biped robot

Having vision capability is a real advantage for your biped robot; you'll use this functionality in lots of different applications. Fortunately, adding hardware and software for vision is both easy and inexpensive. There are two choices as far as vision hardware is concerned. You can add a USB webcam to your system, or you can add RaspiCam, a camera designed specifically for Raspberry Pi.

Installing a USB camera on Raspberry Pi

Connecting a USB camera is very easy. Just plug it into the USB slot. To make sure that your device is connected, type lsusb. You should see the following:

This shows a Creative Webcam located at Bus 001 Device 004: ID 041e:4095. To make sure that the system sees this as a video device, type ls /dev/v* command and you should see something like the following:

The /dev/video0 is the webcam device. Now that your device is connected, let's actually see if you can capture images and video. There are several tools that can allow you to...

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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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