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Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++

You're reading from   Hands-On Robotics Programming with C++ Leverage Raspberry Pi 3 and C++ libraries to build intelligent robotics applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789139006
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lentin Joseph Lentin Joseph
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Dinesh Tavasalkar Dinesh Tavasalkar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with wiringPi on a Raspberry Pi
2. Introduction to the Raspberry Pi FREE CHAPTER 3. Implementing Blink with wiringPi 4. Section 2: Raspberry Pi Robotics
5. Programming the Robot 6. Building an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot 7. Controlling a Robot Using a Laptop 8. Section 3: Face and Object Recognition Robot
9. Accessing the RPi Camera with OpenCV 10. Building an Object-Following Robot with OpenCV 11. Face Detection and Tracking Using the Haar Classifier 12. Section 4: Smartphone-Controlled Robot
13. Building a Voice-Controlled Robot 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing the ncurses library

New curses (ncurses) is a programming library that allows developers to create text-based user interfaces. It is generally used for creating GUI-based applications or software. One of the key features of the ncurses library is that we can use it for taking inputs from keyboard keys, and controlling hardware devices on the output side. We will use the ncurses library to write programs to detect keys to control our robot accordingly. For example, if we press the up arrow, we want our robot to move forward. If we press the left arrow, we want our robot to take a left turn.

To install the ncurses library, we first have to open the command window. To install ncurses, type in the following command and press Enter:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev 

Next, you will be asked whether you want to install the library. Type Y (for yes) and...

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