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BeagleBone Robotic Projects

You're reading from   BeagleBone Robotic Projects Build and control robots that walk, swim, roll, and fly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293136
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Richard Grimmett Richard Grimmett
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Preface 1. Getting Started with the BeagleBone Blue FREE CHAPTER 2. Programming the BeagleBone Blue 3. Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement 4. Avoiding Obstacles Using Sensors 5. Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See 6. Providing Speech Input and Output 7. Making the Unit Very Mobile - Controlling Legged Movement 8. Using a GPS Receiver to Locate Your Robot 9. By Land, By Sea, By Air 10. System Dynamics

Controlling your robot via a web interface

You might also want to control your BeagleBone Blue project from a remote device, perhaps a mobile phone or a tablet. In this section, you'll learn how to create a web server control mechanism for your robot so that you can control it from any web browser via WLAN.

For this part of the project, I'll assume you want to access the device, control two DC motors, and use a connected webcam to give you remote interface access to the video information you'll need to control the direction of the robot. Here is a picture of this sort of robot:

I'll also assume that you have read Chapter 3, Making the Unit Mobile - Controlling Wheeled Movement, so that you know the basics of making the wheels move, and Chapter 5, Allowing Our BeagleBone Blue to See, so that you know how to connect and use the webcam.

Now that you have all...

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